Russia strikes Dnipro as Ukrainian officials seek security pledges in Paris

KYIV – Russian forces launched a monolithic drone onslaught connected the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Dnipro, sidesplitting 3 radical including a kid and wounding dozens, officials said Thursday.

The onslaught was the latest successful a drawstring of Russian attacks that person caused civilian casualties and intensified successful caller weeks, arsenic the United States continues efforts to negociate a ceasefire betwixt Moscow and Kyiv.

Thirty people, including 5 children, were wounded successful the attack, said Serhii Lysak, caput of the Dnipropetrovsk determination administration.

Local authorities said the drones caused wide harm to civilian infrastructure, including an acquisition institution, a dormitory, a gymnasium and aggregate residential buildings. Emergency Service said the strikes triggered aggregate fires crossed the city.

In absorption to the Dnipro attack, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged allies to enactment the state with aerial defence weapons.

“Every defence bundle from partners for Ukraine now, each signifier of enactment from the satellite for our resilience, is virtually protecting lives,” Zelenskyy wrote connected Telegram Thursday. “Russia uses each time and each nighttime to kill."

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was successful Paris for a circular of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, said Andrii Yermak, caput of the Presidential Office. The multinational unit is expected to enactment arsenic a semipermanent information warrant aimed astatine deterring aboriginal Russian aggression aft a ceasefire is successful place.

The delegation besides includes Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Yermak said talks with representatives of the United States are besides scheduled.

“We are moving connected important aspects for the information of Ukraine and each of Europe,” Yermak wrote connected Telegram.

Separately, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its aerial defence systems changeable down 71 Ukrainian drones overnight crossed six regions. Of those, 49 drones were intercepted implicit the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, it said. Kyiv’s forces seized a portion of onshore successful the country during a astonishment incursion successful August 2024.

Additional drones were downed implicit the Bryansk, Vladimir, Oryol, Ryazan, and Tula regions, the ministry said.

And successful Ukraine, Russia launched 5 missiles on with 75 onslaught drones overnight, the aerial unit said Thursday. Air defence forces destroyed 25 drones, portion different 30 were jammed.

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