At least six people have been killed in Kyiv after Russia launched a wave of strikes on Ukraine’s capital, according to local authorities.
The attacks left several more people wounded and hit residential buildings and energy infrastructure on Tuesday, and came as talks continued on a peace plan brokered between Russia and the US.
A residential building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv’s eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, Mayor Vitalii Kitschko said.
Video footage posted to Telegram showed a large fire spreading through multiple floors of the nine-story building in Dniprovskyi. At least four people were injured, according to the head of Kyiv city administration, Tymor Tkachenko.
In separate strikes by Ukraine on Russia’s Rostov region, three people were killed and 10 wounded, according to Governor Yuriy Slyusar.
Russian air defenses destroyed 249 Ukrainian drones overnight above various Russian regions, including occupied Crimea, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
The majority of the drones were shot down over the Black Sea, according to Russian authorities.
The Russian attack followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in Geneva about a peace plan negotiated between the US and Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the latest discussions with US and European partners have led to “workable” steps towards achieving a deal with Russia.
In a national address on Monday, Zelenskkyy said: “Today our delegation returned from Geneva after negotiations with the American side and European partners, and now the list of necessary steps to end the war can become workable.”
He said there was still a lot of “difficult” work to be done before a final document could be produced, and that there were “sensitive issues” that he would need to discuss with US President Donald Trump.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday that Russia had not seen the updated plan.
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with Russian officials for several hours in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, according to a US official.
Driscoll, who became part of the US negotiating team less than two weeks ago, is now heading up the latest phase of talks with Russia involving the terms of a possible peace plan.
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is set to hold a call on Tuesday to speak to Ukraine’s European allies on Tuesday, following the latest talks to secure peace in the war-torn nation.
Both the UK and France had led a “coalition of the willing,” comprising of European nations offering support and peacekeeping efforts to Ukraine should a deal be reached.
Foreign Office officials appeared confident that progress made in Geneva meant this was no longer a hard deadline.
Ahead of the coalition of the willing call, Starmer said all partners in the alliance were focused on achieving a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.
The peace “matters for all of us, because the conflict in Ukraine has had a direct impact here in the United Kingdom,” the prime minister added.
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