Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounded 12, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, despite agreeing to a limited ceasefire.
Zaporizhzhia was hit by 12 drones, police said. Regional head Ivan Fedorov said that residential buildings, cars and communal buildings were set on fire within the Friday night attack. Photos showing emergency services scouring the rubble for survivors.
Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle Wednesday to a limited ceasefire after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders, though it stays to be seen what possible targets can be off-limits to attack.
The three sides appeared to carry starkly different views about what the deal covered. While the White House said “energy and infrastructure” can be a part of the agreement, the Kremlin declared that the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would also like railways and ports to be protected.
The dead in Zaporizhzhia were three members of 1 family. The bodies of the daughter and father were pulled out from under the rubble while doctors unsuccessfully fought for the mother’s life for greater than 10 hours, Fedorov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
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The Ukrainian air force reported that Russia fired a complete of 179 drones and decoys in the newest wave of attacks overnight into Saturday. It said 100 were intercepted and an additional 63 lost, likely having been electronically jammed.
Officials within the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions also reported fires breaking out attributable to the falling debris from intercepted drones.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, said its air defense systems shot down 47 Ukrainian drones.
Local authorities said two people were injured and there was damage to 6 apartments when a Ukrainian drone hit a high-rise apartment block within the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday night.
Zelenskyy told reporters after Wednesday’s call with Trump that Ukraine and U.S. negotiators will discuss technical details related to the partial ceasefire during a gathering in Saudi Arabia on Monday. Russian negotiators are also set to carry separate talks with U.S. officials there.
Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine is open to a full, 30-day ceasefire that Trump has proposed, saying: “We won’t be against any format, any steps toward unconditional ceasefire.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an entire ceasefire conditional on a halt of arms supplies to Kyiv and a suspension of Ukraine’s military mobilization — demands rejected by Ukraine and its Western allies.
Kremlin spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday that Ukraine was continuing with “treacherous attacks” on energy infrastructure facilities, and that Russia reserved the suitable to a “symmetrical” response.
Her comments got here after Russia accused Ukrainian forces Friday of blowing up a gas metering station near the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine’s military General Staff rejected Moscow’s accusations and blamed the Russian military for shelling the station as a part of Russia’s “discrediting campaign.”
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