Danai Nesta Kupemba
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Reuters
Residents are investigating damage to their homes after a Russian drone strike in a suburb of Kiev on Saturday night
Ukraine says Russia has launched its biggest drone attack since the start of a full-scale invasion, targeting several regions, including Kyiv, where one woman has died.
Russia had launched 273 drones by Sunday (05:00 GMT) targeting the eastern central Kiev region and Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
The barrage came a day before the scheduled call between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The US president is urging a ceasefire.
Russian and Ukraine held their first in-person meeting in Turkey on Friday in more than three years, but they received little other than a swap deal for new prisoners.
German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz said on Sunday he and British, French and Polish leaders will hold a virtual meeting with Trump before he and his British, French and Polish leaders chatted with Putin on Monday morning.
On Sunday, the Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia had fired a record number of drones, including Shahed attack drones.
The strike killed one person and injured at least three people in the outskirts of Kiev, officials reported.
The biggest previous drone attack from Russia took place on the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion on February 23, when Moscow launched 267 drones.
Reuters
Firefighters on sites outside Kiev hit Sunday morning
Ukrainian officials said the strike on Saturday night showed Russia had no intention of stopping the war despite international pressure on a ceasefire.
“For Russia, negotiations [on Friday] In Istanbul, it’s just a pretense. Putin wants war,” said Andri Yamak, the top aide to the Ukrainian president.
Volodymyr Zelensky was in the Vatican on Sunday. There, he held a personal meeting with Pope Leo following the new Pope’s inauguration Mass. He also briefly met with Rome’s US Vice President J.D. Vance.
