“No miracles”: Russia minimizes discussions in Ukraine while deadly attacks continue | Russia-Ukraine War News
Russia has played expectations of any breakthrough in the next talks with Ukraine in Turkiye, while Ukrainian officials said that a child had been killed and that more than 20 people were injured in Russian attacks overnight.
“We have no reason to hope for miraculous breakthroughs,” the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said to journalists on Tuesday, saying it was “barely possible in the current situation”.
“We intend to continue our interests, we intend to guarantee our interests and perform the tasks that we set ourselves from the start.”
The announcement of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Monday, that the talks would have a certain hope that negotiators would end up the war that began with the Russian on a large scale of Ukraine in February 2022. The American president Donald Trump exerted more pressure on Russia to hold his terms, which was the Russian president Vladimir Vladimir Vladimir Vladimir Puttin has set up on his request.
The third cycle of talks in recent months is expected to be held in Istanbul on Wednesday. Previous negotiations have led to a series of exchanges of prisoners of war and to the bodies of fallen soldiers, but did not produce any breakthrough on a cease-fire.
Tuesday, Zelenskyy announced on social networks that Rustem Umerov, the former Minister of Defense and current Secretary of the Security Council, will lead the delegation of Ukraine.
He also said that Ukraine was ready to “guarantee the release of our captivity people and the return of kidnapped children to stop murders and prepare a meeting of leaders”, describing potential discussion subjects.
Russia has not yet announced the composition of its team for talks. His delegation to the previous round was led by a fellowship historian and the current chief of the Russian Union of Writers, Vladimir Medinsky, which Ukraine described as not a real decision -maker.
Asked Tuesday if he could give an idea of how the Kremlin had seen the potential time of a possible peace agreement, Peskov said he could not give any indication on the calendar.
“There is a lot of work to do before you can talk about the possibility of a few high -level meetings,” added Peskov, one day after Zelenskyy has renewed a call to a meeting with Putin.
Despite the upcoming talks, Russia’s offensive continues, its forces leading hard to pierce east and northeast of the 1,000 km (620 mile) front points.
The Air Force of Ukraine said that Russia had launched 426 drones and 24 missiles overnight, making it one of the largest air assaults in Russia for months. He said he had shot down or blocked at least 224 Russian drones and missiles, while 203 drones have disappeared from radars.
During one of the attacks, a 10 -year -old boy was killed and five people were injured when guided glide bombs hit a residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, according to Mayor Alexander Goncarenko.
Kramatorsk is part of a metropolitan region of Donetsk which remains under Ukrainian control three years after the start of the Invasion of Russia on a large scale of Ukraine.
A dam of Russian strikes was also reported in the capital, kyiv, triggering several fires and damaging an underground air raid shelter where civilians had taken refuge. There was no immediate report of victims.
According to regional authorities in northeast of Ukraine, the northeast region of Sumy has undergone several waves of attacks. A drone struck a service station in the city of Putyvl, injuring four people, including a five-year-old boy, reported the regional military administration. A second drone struck the same place less than two hours later, injuring seven people.
In addition, two powerful Russian slippery bombs were abandoned on Sumy City, injuring at least 13 people, including a six -year -old boy and damaging five apartment buildings, two private houses and a shopping center in the attack. The explosions broke the windows and destroyed the balconies in the residential buildings, said the acting mayor Artem Kobzar.
A few weeks ago, Putin announced her intention to create a “buffer zone” in the Sumy region, effectively by occupying Ukrainian border areas.
In the Ukrainian port city in the south of Odesa, there have been initial reports of drone attacks in which at least one person was injured. The fires broke out in several places in the city, according to the regional media.
Ukraine also launched attacks, the Russian Ministry of Defense saying that its air power had dropped 35 Ukrainian long drones during several regions during the night, including three in the Moscow region.
