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Russian attacks on major Ukrainian cities killed at least 12 people as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Washington, DC, supported by European leaders, because Peace talks with high issues With American president Donald Trump, it could determine the future of Ukraine and his fate in the war, now in his fourth year.
An entire family, including a toddler and a 16-year-old, was part of seven people killed in a one-night drone strike in a residential area in the city in northeast Kharkiv, the authorities announced on Monday. The attack also injured 20 people, including six children.
The Russian forces killed five people and injured four in attacks in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, where some of the fiercest fights on the ground are raging on and where Russian President Vladimir Putin, feeling that Moscow has the upper hand, seeks the withdrawal of third -party Ukraine that Kyiv still controls.
In Zaporizhzhia, a southeast city, 17 people were injured in an attack, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. Russian air raids have also targeted the northeast region of Sumy and the southern Odesa region.
The Air Force of Ukraine said that Russian forces had launched 140 drones and four missiles to Ukraine overnight, adding that 88 drones had been slaughtered.
Russia has intensified its fight in Ukraine. According to the United Nations surveillance mission on Ukraine, around 2,600 drone attacks were recorded in the last month, the highest rate since the war and more than 300 civilians were killed.
Meanwhile, Ukraine soldiers said on Monday that his drones had struck an oil pumping station in the Tambov region, a 1,923 km (1,195 miles) strike of Ukraine, which led to the suspension of supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.
“Following the strike, a fire broke out in the establishment. The oil that pumped through Druzhba’s main oil oil was completely stopped,” the Ukrainian army staff said in a statement.
In the border region of Russia, Belgorod, four people were injured in an attack on Ukrainian drones while Russian officials said they had shot hundreds of drones and ammunition.
Negotiate the end of the war
Zelenskyy called the latest attacks on “demonstrative and cynical” Ukraine. “Putin will make demonstrative murders to maintain pressure on Ukraine and Europe, as well as humiliate diplomatic efforts,” he wrote on X.
Charles Stratford of Al Jazeera, reporting from kyiv, said that Zelenskyy had seen the murder of civilians as a strategy aimed at giving Trump more negotiation chips to put pressure on Ukraine to accept an unfavorable peace agreement.
“This shows how Zelenskyy is under pressure when he enters … potentially the most vital diplomatic effort to put an end to this war,” said Stratford.
Zelenskyy had to meet Trump for interviews at the White House alongside a group of European heavy goods vehicles, notably the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. On the table for discussion, possible land concessions as well as NATO -type security guarantees need Ukraine to demand for any peace agreement with Russia.
To date, Zelenskyy refused to consider The possibility of giving up a Ukrainian territory to provoke peace. It is also prohibited under the Ukrainian constitution,
The meeting comes to the heels of a summit Between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday which ended with any clear breakthrough on the war in Ukraine.
Military analyst Sean Bell said he had little hope that a peace agreement did not leave talks in Washington, DC. “The harsh reality is that, unless Putin has achieved his objectives, he has no appetite for negotiations,” Bell told Al Jazeera.
“If President Zelenskyy does all donations, it’s actually a surrender. Zelenskyy cannot do this,” he continued. At the same time, Bell said he did not expect Russia to accept an agreement that implies NATO -type security guarantees for Ukraine.
Bell said that a “catalyst” was necessary to put the war at its end, the most effective of which he believed to be rigid prices of Trump on buyers of Russian oil and gas, as India. The American president has threatened to promulgate these secondary sanctions, but has so far been to put pressure on the income of exports of fossil fuels in Russia.
“The fact that Trump has avoided doing this means that the murder will continue,” said Bell.
The strength and security in number seem to be factors in the group visit of European leaders with still fresh memories hostile reception Zelenskyy received in February from Trump and the American vice-president JD Vance in a public home of the White House. They castigated the Ukrainian leader as ungrateful and “disrespectful”.
