Russia unleashes new wave of deadly attacks on Ukraine after Trump

Kyiv – A Russian missile and drone bombing of Ukraine killed six people in and around the capital kyiv overnight, including two children, proving once again that Vladimir Putin does not feel “enough pressure” to end the war against their neighborssaid the leader of Ukraine.

The wave of attacks left at least 17 other people injured and caused power outages across the country, Ukrainian authorities said, hours after President Trump’s efforts to resolve the nearly four-year war appeared to hit another roadblock. the white house said Tuesday that a planned meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary… announced by the American leader less than a week before – it was cancelled.

A White House official said there were “no plans” for such a meeting in the “immediate future,” after Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a “productive call” but determined another in-person presidential summit was “not necessary.”

Trump told reporters later Tuesday that he didn’t want to “have a meeting in vain.”

“Another night shows that Russia does not feel enough pressure to prolong the war,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media following the latest overnight Russian attack on his country. “So far it is known that 17 people have been injured. Unfortunately, six people have died, including two children.”

News journalists in kyiv heard multiple explosions overnight and saw a plume of smoke rising over the capital. The attacks also targeted the country’s energy infrastructure, leaving thousands of people without heat or electricity across Ukraine as cold autumn temperatures begin to take effect, according to the Energy Ministry.

“Due to a massive missile and drone attack on energy infrastructure, emergency power outages have been introduced in most regions of Ukraine,” he said in a statement.

Russia said it had intercepted 33 Ukrainian drones overnight without reporting substantial damage.

Trump had said last week that he would meet Putin for peace talks in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, within two weeks, following what he called a productive two-hour phone call with the Russian leader.

This week, Trump said that while he believed Ukraine “could still win” the war, “I don’t think they will.”

The president pressured Zelensky to cede Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, 78% of which Trump says Russian invading forces already control, during talks at the White House on Friday, a senior Ukrainian official told News.

Ukraine’s leaders have repeatedly rejected such calls to cede any territory, and many of the United States’ European allies have warned against appeasing Russia by allowing it to unilaterally seize part of a sovereign nation.

France, Germany and Britain have led the charge to support Ukraine, rejecting the idea that kyiv would give up territory and the White House’s repeated suggestion that fighting should be frozen along the current front lines. Ukraine’s European partners, under the guise of the “coalition of the willing,” will meet again in London on Friday to discuss support for kyiv’s war effort.

But Zelenskyy has indicated in recent days his willingness to at least negotiate with Russia under a cessation of fighting based on Trump’s proposal to freeze the battle lines where they currently stand.

Speaking on Wednesday during a visit to Oslo, Norway, Zelenskyy said Trump had “proposed: ‘Stay where we are and start the conversation,'” calling it “a good compromise,” but the Ukrainian leader added: “I’m not sure Putin supports it, and I told the president that.”

In a statement after the overnight attack, Zelenskyy said: “Russian words about diplomacy mean nothing as long as the Russian leadership does not sense critical problems.”

Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, calling it a “special military operation” to demilitarize the country and prevent NATO expansion.

kyiv and its European allies say the war is an illegal land grab that has led to tens of thousands of civilian and military casualties and widespread destruction.

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