3 dead, 21 injured in Russian unmanned aircraft and missile attacks against Kharkiv

A great Russian attack of drones and missiles went to Ukraine The second largest city in Jarkiv On Saturday, killing at least three people and hurting another 21, according to local officials, as the hopes of peace were further mitigated.

The sides at war were also accused of trying to sabotage an exchange of planned prisoners, almost a week after kyiv embarrassed the Kremlin with a Surprising drone attack In military airfields at the bottom of Russia.

Saturday’s flood, the last one in almost large-scale attacks against Ukraine, included air sliding pumps that have become part of a fierce Russian attack on the All-Out war, which began on February 24, 2022.

While firefighters and emergency workers sprouted the attack sites in Jharkiv, residents described the attacks that damaged their homes and almost took their lives on Saturday morning.

Alina Belous said she had tried to extinguish flames with water cubes to rescue a young woman trapped inside a flame building she had asked for help.

“We were trying to publish with our cubes, along with our neighbors. Then the rescuers arrived and began to help us turn off the fire, but there were smoke and worried that we could not stay there. When the roof began to fall, they took us out,” he said.

Local resident Vadym Ihnachenko said at first he thought it was a neighboring building that was in flames.

“But when we saw sparks coming from the top, we realized that it was our building,” he said.

The Ukraine Air Force said Russia hit with 215 missiles and drones during the night, and Ukrainian aerial defenses demolished 87 drones and seven missiles.

Several other areas in Ukraine were also affected, including Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, and the city of Ternopil, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, said in an X position.

“To end the murder and destruction of Russia, more pressure on Moscow is required, as well as more steps to strengthen Ukraine,” he said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its forces carried out a night strike on Ukrainian military objectives, including ammunition deposits, drone assembly workshops and armament repair stations. There were no comments from Moscow about the reports of victims in Kharkiv.

The mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said the attacks also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private houses. Terekhov said it was “the most powerful attack” in the city since the beginning of the large -scale invasion of Russia.

The regional governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said that two districts in the city were beaten with three missiles, five air planning pumps and 48 drones. Among the injured were two children, a baby and a 14 -year -old girl added.

It is believed that six people are trapped under the rubble of an industrial center in the Kharkiv Kyiv district, said Kharkiv prosecutor’s office in a statement on Telegram. The contact with the trapped was lost and the rescue attempts have been ongoing since the afternoon, he said, without appointing the installation.

In the province of Dnipropetrovsk further south, two women, 45 and 88, were injured, according to local governor Serhii Lysak.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its forces demolished 36 Ukrainian drones during the night, over the south and west of the country, even near the capital. The debris of drones wounded two civilians in the suburbs of Moscow, local governor Andrei Vorobyov reported.

On Friday, Russia hit six Ukrainian territories, killing at least six people and wounding about 80. Among the dead were three emergency responders in kyiv, one person in Lutsk and two people in Chernihiv.

A diplomatic impulse led by the United States for an agreement has brought two rounds of direct peace conversations between delegations of Russia and Ukraine, although negotiations did not fulfill significant advances. The sides remain very separate in their terms for the end of the fight.

Ukraine has offered a high unconditional fire of 30 days and a meeting between its Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to break the dead point. But the Kremlin has effectively rejected a truce and has not moved from its demands.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said this week that Putin told him that Moscow would answer to Ukraine attack on Russian military airfields on June 1.

Trump also said it could be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before separating them and follow peace. Trump’s comments were a notable diversion of his appeals often declared to stop the war and pointed out that he could be renouncing Recent peace efforts.

Later, on Saturday, Russia and Ukraine accused the other of the weighting plans of exchanging 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action, agreed during the direct conversations in Estanbul on Monday that otherwise did not advance towards the end of the war.

Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin assistant who directed the Russian delegation, said kyiv asked for a high minute to an imminent exchange. In a telegram post, Medinsky said that the refrigerated trucks transported more than 1,200 bodies of Ukrainian troops in Russia had already reached the exchange site agreed on the border when the news arrived.

In response, Ukraine said that Russia was playing “dirty games” and manipulating facts. According to the main Ukrainian authority that deals with such exchanges, a date had not been established to repatriate bodies. In a statement on Saturday, the agency also accused Russia of presenting lists of war prisoners for repatriation that do not correspond to the agreements reached on Monday.

Immediately it was not possible to reconcile conflict statements.

Monday’s conversations took place one day after a series of impressive long -range attacks by both parties, with Ukraine by launching the devastating drone assault on the Russian air bases, and Moscow launched its greatest attack of war drones against Ukraine.

The Ukraine Security Service on Saturday launched a video that is said to show its bold attack against the Russian air fields on Sunday in which kyiv said that 41 Russian military planes were destroyed.

The video shows the flight route of a first -person view loaded with explosives, or FPV, drones, from takeoff from the roof of a modular building to the Belaya air field, where it seems to hit a Russian strategic bomber. Other planes are wrapped in flames, apparently from previous successes in the “Spiderweb Operation” of Ukraine.

A previous round of negotiations in Istanbul, the first time that the Russian and Ukrainian negotiators sat at the same table from the first weeks of the large -scale invasion, led to 1,000 prisoners on both sides were exchanged.

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