Russian attack kills at least 6 in Ukraine as US and Russia hold peace talks in Abu Dhabi
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Russia launched a wave of attacks in Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least six people in urban strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure, while an attack on energy infrastructure in the south killed three homes, authorities said.
The major offensive comes amid a renewed push to end a nearly four-year-old war and talks about a one-party peace plan. Defense Secretary Dan Driscoll met with Russian officials for several hours in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, a US official confirmed to the media.
Driscoll, who became part of the US negotiating team less than two weeks ago, is heading up the latest round of talks involving the terms of a possible peace deal with Russia.
The American official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive discussions, will not give details that it is expected that the Ukrainians are expected to be able to fulfill the meeting and all parties have realized that they will be able to stop the war as soon as possible.
Russia fired 22 missiles of various types and more than 460 drones in Ukraine overnight, the President of Ukraine Voldymyy wrote by telegraph, he wrote that four drones flew in Romania and Moldova.
“What is important now is that all partners move on to talk together, with joint efforts. The pressure on Russia must definitely work,” Zelenskyy wrote.
‘Putin will not stop’
The Russian strikes cut off water, electricity and heat in parts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. Video footage sent to the Telegraph showed a massive fire spreading through a nine-storey residential building in Kyiprovskkyi in the KniProvskkki district.
Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said two people were killed and five were injured in Dnipovskyi and another building in the Central Pecherskyi district was badly damaged.
Liubov Petrivna, a 90-year-old resident of the damaged building in DniProvskyi district, told AP “everything” in her apartment and “glass is raining” on her.
Petrivna said that she does not believe in the peace plan that is currently being discussed: “No one will ever do anything about it. Putin will not stop until he accompanies us.”
In the next attack, four people were killed and three were injured in a strike on a non-military building in Kyatoshynyi province, according to the head of the Kyiv City Administration, according to Tymur Tkachenko.
Ukrainian drones hit a Russian city
Ukraine’s energy ministry also said energy infrastructure had been hit, without specifying the extent of the damage. Ukrainian emergency services say six people, including two children, were injured in a Russian attack on a port power infrastructure in the Odesa region.
Three people were killed and eight others were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Southern Rostov region overnight. The damage occurred in the city of Taganrog not far from the border in Ukraine, Gov. yuri Syusur said in an online statement on Tuesday.
The attack damaged several private houses and residences, non-public areas, a warehouse and a paint shop, Sylusar said.
Russia’s air defense destroyed 249 Ukrainian drones overnight over various regions of Russia and the occupied Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, saying that 116 drones were shot down over the Black Sea.
The deadline set by the US to work for peace in Ukraine is days away, but despite ongoing talks, important issues remain far from being resolved – including whether Ukraine will cede territory to Russia.
The attack followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in Geneva on Sunday about the US-Russia peace deal.
Oleksandr Bevz, a delegate from the Ukrainian side, told the media that the talks were “constructive” and the two sides were able to discuss many points.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday morning that Moscow had not received a new peace plan.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the US – Ukraine trade peace plan is “direct” but also warned that it should not be “predation” that enables the movement of enemies.
Ukraine Allies meet almost
The French head of government says any peace deal with Moscow must include strong security guarantees for Ukraine and, more broadly, by emphasizing the size of the Ukrainian armed forces should not protect the country in peacetime.
Macron was speaking with Mzande of RTL before a video conference meeting after a day of countries, led by France and the UK, can help the police or any trader with Russia.
“We want peace but we don’t want the peace that exists, in fact, that is a computer. That is to say that it puts Ukraine in an impossible position, that in the end it gives Russia the freedom to keep going,” said Macron.
