A Russian unmanned aircraft deployed in southern Ukraine killed three members from the same family thus causing an uproar in Kyiv just before talks between Russia and Ukraine and the US began.
The Ukrainian and Russian officials will conduct individual talks with US representatives in Saudi Arabia on Monday while a Ukrainian senior official hopes to achieve minimum steps toward cease-fire implementation to end air raids and sea operations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied the US and Ukrainian proposed complete ceasefire and then announced that his forces would focus their military operations on energy targets after offering he had issued his soldiers the necessary orders.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched 179 drones during its drone attack on Ukraine throughout the night.
A drone strike killed a whole family with their teenage daughter in Zaporizhzhia southern Ukraine during late Friday.
The rescue teams retrieved the bodies of the father alongside his daughter from the destroyed site. The medical team treated the mother during more than ten hours without success until she succumbed to her injuries according to Zaporizhzhia governor Ivan Fedorov via Telegram.
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An AFP photographer reported seeing rescue personnel sorting through a bombed building wreckage while night mist drifted with smoke at the strike location.
The 14-year-old child became the latest victim when Russian forces violated the ceasefire in Zaporizhzhia using Shahed weapons designed in Iran, said Andriy Yermak who serves as President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff.
The Russian military launched drone strikes on Zaporizhzhia where twelve people got wounded including an infant under nine months old according to Ukrainian government statements.
During the nighttime Ukraine launched drone attacks toward Russian territory.
