Ukraine

Russia attacked Ukraine during the night with 574 drones and 40 missiles, said the Ukraine Air Force. Most of the weapons were intercepted by the aerial defenses of Ukraine, but the mass assault was far from being unusual, and the authorities said at least one person was killed and 15 injured.

Ukrainian officials said the Russian attack hit the energy infrastructure, private houses, an American electronics factory, where President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the 15 injuries were suffered and a garden of infants.

“Last night, the Russian army established one of its crazy anti-records. He made a civil infrastructure, residential buildings and our people,” Zelenskyy said in a message posted on social networks. He called the Electronics plant an “US investment” and an “ordinary civil company” that produces “daily items such as coffee machines.”

“This is also a goal for Russians. Very revealing. The fire is still becoming extinguishing in the company. From now on, it is known that 15 people have been affected by this strike. All of them have received the necessary assistance,” he said.

Referring to the efforts of President Trump to negotiate a peace agreement to end the war, including the bilateral summit between Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin only one week earlier, Zelenskyy condemned Moscow for launching the new strike “as if nothing had changed at all. As if there were no efforts in the world to stop this war.”

“An answer is needed,” he added. “Until now, there has been no sign of Moscow that they will really get involved in significant negotiations and put an end to this war. Pressure is needed. Strong sanctions, strong tariffs.”

There has been much talk, outside Ukraine, on a peace agreement in the middle of the augmented diplomacy of Mr. Trump. But within Ukraine, people continue to live and die in a war zone more than three years later Russia launched its large -scale invasion. Many in the country, like its president, simply do not believe that Putin really wants to end the war. They think he is only playing along with the narrative of Alto El Fuego to avoid angry Trump.

And in the meantime, Putin’s army continues to expand its Massive entry of territory in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense said Thursday that the forces had captured another village in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine.

The greatest Berezovets taras of the Ukrainian forces told News themezone that even if Putin accepted the fire, the Russian leader simply should not be confident.

“Absolutely not,” Berezovets told News themezone. “He is a cheater, he is a criminal … and he would never accept the fact that Independent Ukraine still exists.”

That is why Ukraine wants security guarantees: a promise of protection from the United States and its NATO allies in case Russia should invade again after implementing any high fire.

President Trump has insisted that such guarantee would not involve US boots in the field, and vice president JD Vance said Wednesday that Europe would have to endure most of the costs.

But getting all parties, including Russia, to accept these security guarantees can be almost impossible. After his meeting with Putin, Trump met with Zelenskyy and European leaders in Washington to hold separate conversations.

But Moscow has minimized the Perspectives of a Putin-Zelenskyy Summit In the short term, and officials have said that Russia should be included in any imminent discussion on security guarantees for Ukraine.

Erin Lyall contributed to this report.

• War
• Ukraine
• Donald Trump
• Russia
• Vladimir Putin
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy