Trump doubts Putin’s desire for peace, Russia attacks Ukraine with giant drone strikes
Officials said Russia launched a grand drone strike and air strike earlier on Sunday, killing at least four people.
Three people were killed and four were injured in an air strike in Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Governor Serhiy Lysak said another person died in a drone attack in the city of Pavlod in the Dnipropetrovsk area, which was hit for the third consecutive night.
The attack took place hours after Russia claimed to regain control of the rest of the Kursk region that Ukrainian troops captured during the August 2924 invasion. Ukrainian officials say the battle in Kursk is still underway.
Trump said on Saturday that he suspected Putin wanted to end a war that lasted more than three years, expressing new skepticism and a peace deal would soon be reached. Just a day ago, Trump said Ukraine and Russia were “very close to the deal.”
“Putin has no reason to fire missiles at civilians, towns, towns, towns, towns, towns, towns, and other social media posts,” Trump also hinted at further sanctions on Russia.
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Trump-Zelenskyy’s conversation is the first face-to-face encounter between the two leaders since the Oval Office meeting held at the White House on February 28.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said next week will be “very critical” and the United States will need to “determine whether this is an effort we hope to continue to participate in.”
Asked by NBC See the media Regarding possible concessions to Russia, Rubio stressed the need for “adulthood and reality.”
“The only solution to this war is a negotiated solution, and both sides must give up what they claim to want and must give each other what they hope not to have.”
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired 149 blasted drones and baits in the latest wave of attacks, adding that 57 people were intercepted and 67 were blocked.
One person was injured in a drone attack in the Odesa area and another was injured in the city of Zhytomyr. Four people were also injured in a Russian air strike in the city of Helson on Sunday, local officials said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said air defense shelling shot down five Ukrainian drones in the Bryansk border area, as well as three drones on the Crimean Peninsula, which were illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
Russian-installed mayor Ivan Prikhodko said five people were injured when Ukrainian troops shelled the city of Holifka in the partially occupied Donetsk region.
