Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian City of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and injured 12, Ukrainian officials, on Saturday said Despite his agreement with a limited ceasefire.
Zaporizhzhia was hit by 12 drones, police said. Regional chief Ivan Fedorov said that residential buildings, cars and municipal buildings had been burnt down during the Friday evening attack. Photos showing emergency services covering the rubble for survivors.
Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle on Wednesday of a limited ceasefire after the American president Donald Trump spoke with the leaders of the countries, although it remains to be seen which possible targets would be prohibited to attack.
The three sides seemed to have very different views of what the agreement has covered. While the White House said that “energy and infrastructure” would be part of the agreement, the Kremlin said that the agreement was referring more closely to “energy infrastructure”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would also like railways and ports to be protected.
The dead of Zaporizhzhia were three members of a family. The bodies of the girl and the father were removed from the rubble while the doctors fought without success for the life of the mother for more than 10 hours, wrote Fedorov on the Telegram messaging application.
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The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia had drawn a total of 179 drones and lures in the last wave of attacks during the night after Saturday. He said that 100 were intercepted and 63 others lost, having probably been blocked electronically.
Officials from the kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions also reported that fires are bursting due to the fall in debris of intercepted drones.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said its air defense systems had shot 47 Ukrainian drones.
Local authorities said two people had been injured and that there had been six-apartments when a Ukrainian drone struck a high-rise apartment building in the southern city of Rossie de Rostov-on Friday evening.
Zelenskyy told journalists after Wednesday’s call with Trump that Ukraine and American negotiators would discuss technical details related to the partial ceasefire at a meeting in Saudi Arabia on Monday. Russian negotiators should also organize separate discussions with US officials.
Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine is open to a full 30-day ceasefire that Trump has offered, saying: “We will not be against any format, steps to the unconditional ceasefire.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin made a complete conditional cease-fire on an end of weapons supplies in kyiv and a suspension of the military mobilization of Ukraine-requests rejected by Ukraine and his Western allies.
Kremlin spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Saturday that Ukraine continued with “treacherous attacks” against energy infrastructure facilities, and that Russia has reserved the right to a “symmetrical” response.
His comments came after Russia accused Ukrainian forces on Friday of exploding a gas meter station near the city of Sudzha in the Kursk Russia region. The military staff of Ukraine rejected Moscow’s accusations and blamed the Russian army for bombing the station as part of Russia’s “discreditation campaign”.
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