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In this photograph taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service connected Sunday, April 27, 2025, a Russian Army 152mm howitzer Giatsint-B fires towards Ukrainian positions successful Kherson, Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
KYIV – Russia launched a sweeping drone battle crossed Ukraine overnight into Sunday, targeting aggregate regions, officials said, aft U.S. President Donald Trump formed doubt implicit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to extremity the war.
One idiosyncratic was killed and a 14-year-old miss wounded successful the metropolis of Pavlohrad successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, which was deed for the 3rd consecutive night, determination Gov. Serhii Lysak said.
The attacks came hours aft Russia claimed to person regained power implicit the remaining parts of the Kursk region, which Ukrainian forces seized successful a astonishment incursion past August. Ukrainian officials said the warring successful Kursk was inactive ongoing.
Trump said Saturday that helium doubts Putin wants to extremity the much than three-year war successful Ukraine, expressing caller skepticism that a bid woody tin beryllium reached soon. Only a time earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “ very adjacent to a deal.”
“There was nary crushed for Putin to beryllium shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, implicit the past fewer days,” Trump wrote successful a societal media station arsenic helium flew backmost to the United States aft attending Pope Francis’ ceremonial astatine the Vatican, wherever helium met concisely with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump besides hinted astatine further sanctions against Russia.
The Trump-Zelenskyy speech connected the sidelines of the pope’s ceremonial was the archetypal face-to-face brushwood betwixt the 2 leaders since they argued during a heated Oval Office meeting astatine the White House successful precocious February.
Russia fired 149 exploding drones and decoys successful the latest question of attacks, the Ukrainian aerial unit said, adding that 57 were intercepted and different 67 jammed.
One idiosyncratic besides was wounded successful drone attacks connected the Odesa portion and different successful the metropolis of Zhitomir, according to section officials.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that aerial defenses changeable down 5 Ukrainian drones successful the borderline portion of Bryansk, arsenic good arsenic 3 drones implicit the Crimean peninsula, which was illegally annexed by Russia successful 2014.
Five radical were wounded erstwhile Ukrainian forces shelled the metropolis of Horlivka successful the partially occupied Donetsk region, the city’s Russian-installed Mayor Ivan Prikhodko said.
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