Six lifeless in Russian airstrikes on Ukraine, hours after Trump cabinets bid for Putin talks

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John Sudworth In Kyiv

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Intense Russian drone and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine have left at the least seven folks lifeless, together with two kids, President Volodymyr Zelensky has mentioned.

One other 26 folks had been wounded, in one other evening of assaults that he mentioned proved Moscow had not come underneath sufficient stress for its continued battle.

Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump mentioned his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest with Russia's Vladimir Putin had been shelved as he didn't need a "wasted assembly".

The Kremlin has rejected requires a ceasefire alongside the present entrance strains made each Trump and European leaders.

In the meantime, Ukraine's navy mentioned it had attacked a Russian chemical plant within the Bryansk border area late on Tuesday with UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

Calling the strike "a profitable hit" that penetrated the Russian air defence system, navy officers mentioned the Bryansk plant "produces gunpowder, explosives and rocket gasoline parts utilized in ammunition and missiles employed by the enemy to shell the territory of Ukraine".

Zelensky, who was on account of go to Swedish defence contractor Saab on Wednesday, returned from talks with Trump final Friday, having failed to influence the US president to supply long-range Tomahawk missiles.

"As quickly as the difficulty of long-range missiles grew to become a bit additional away for us, for Ukraine, then nearly robotically Russia grew to become much less all in favour of diplomacy," Zelensky mentioned.

The Ukrainian capital got here underneath a wave of assaults in a single day, the primary such strikes since 28 September.

A pair of their 60s had been killed when a drone hit their high-rise constructing within the metropolis, and 4 folks had been killed within the wider Kyiv area. Among the many victims had been a girl, a six-month-old child and a lady aged 12.

The mayor of Kharkiv mentioned later {that a} 40-year-old man was killed and 5 different folks had been damage in a collection of drone assaults. A non-public kindergarten was hit and youngsters had been among the many wounded, mentioned Mayor Ihor Terekhov.

The capital was underneath a ballistic missile warning for many of the evening, and echoed to the sound of explosions. By morning rescue groups fought fires in residential buildings.

Throughout Ukraine, Russian assaults as soon as once more focused power infrastructure and emergency energy outages had been imposed in a number of areas.

One MP in Kyiv, Inna Sovsun, instructed the BBC that the air raids had lasted all through the evening and had been positively an assault on the ability provide: "for almost all like myself it means we do not have electrical energy and we do not have water."