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What to expect from Trump, Zelenskyy gathering
Russian attacks connected Ukraine continued up of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's gathering with President Trump successful Washington connected Monday. An overnight question of aerial strikes deed cities astir the country, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Sumy, according to section media.
Ukrainian authorities said a drone onslaught connected a residential country successful the metropolis of Kharkiv killed a toddler, a 16-year-old and 5 different people.
"Despite each of the diplomacy and bid efforts, Russia continues to termination civilians," Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said successful a societal media post. "Russia is simply a murderous warfare instrumentality that Ukraine is holding back. And it indispensable beryllium stopped done transatlantic unity and pressure. Moscow indispensable halt the sidesplitting successful bid to beforehand diplomacy."
"This was a demonstrative and cynical Russian strike. They are alert that a gathering is taking spot contiguous successful Washington that volition code the extremity of the war," Zelenskyy said connected societal media, adding that dozens much people, including children, had been injured successful the onslaught connected Kharkiv.
A pistillate looks astatine the damaged flat gathering aft the Russian drone onslaught connected August 18, 2025 successful Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy said, separately, rocket strikes successful Zaporizhzhia killed 3 radical and injured 20. Later, Ivan Federov, the caput of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, said the fig of the wounded had accrued to 30.
Eleven flat buildings, 2 schools, a kindergarten, a buying halfway and a autobus analyzable were damaged successful the strike, Regina Kharchenko, the caput of the Zaporizhzhia City Council, said.
The Ukrainian president besides said Russia had attacked an vigor installation successful Odesa owned by an Azerbaijani company, "implying that it was an onslaught not lone connected america but besides connected our relations and vigor security."
"The Russian warfare instrumentality continues to destruct lives contempt everything. Putin volition perpetrate demonstrative killings to support unit connected Ukraine and Europe, arsenic good arsenic to humiliate diplomatic efforts," Zelenskyy said. "That is precisely wherefore we are seeking assistance to enactment an extremity to the killings. That is wherefore reliable information guarantees are required. That is wherefore Russia should not beryllium rewarded for its information successful this war. The warfare indispensable beryllium ended. And it is Moscow that indispensable perceive the word: "Stop."
Russian authorities media reported Ukraine had carried retired a drone onslaught successful Donetsk overnight, which killed a 62-year-old woman.
Haley Ott is the CBS News Digital planetary reporter, based successful the CBS News London bureau.
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