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Ukraine resumes mass attacks on Russia as US envoys await talks

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 258 Ukrainian drones overnight across as many as 14 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas.
  • Russian authorities reported three deaths in Belgorod, four injuries in Rostov and a fire at an oil refinery in Ryazan linked to the attacks.
  • The strikes followed a 72-hour agreement to halt attacks on the two countries’ capitals while US envoys held consultations with Putin and were due to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukraine resumed large-scale attacks on Russian territory on Sunday, just a day after US envoys held talks with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. The timing underscored the fragile nature of a 72-hour agreement between Russia and Ukraine to halt attacks on their respective capitals.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses destroyed 258 enemy drones overnight, five times the previous day’s figure. The attacks reached as many as 14 Russian regions, as well as the annexed Crimean Peninsula and the Black and Azov seas.

Unmanned aircraft also caused a fire at a Rosneft refinery in the Ryazan region, according to the Telegram channel Astra. Regional Governor Pavel Malkov confirmed a fire at one of the area’s companies without identifying it. The refinery is among Russia’s largest, with annual processing capacity of nearly 17 million tonnes. It produces gasoline, liquefied gas and aviation kerosene.

objectives

· Vladimir PutinPutin told the US envoys that the Russian army would achieve its objectives in the military campaign.

In the border region of Belgorod, which authorities describe as the area hardest hit by the war, three people died in more than 100 Ukrainian artillery and drone attacks over the past 24 hours. In the southern Rostov region, fragments from a drone struck the locomotive of a passenger train, forcing seven trains to stop. Four people were injured, including two children.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were scheduled to consult Zelenskyy on Sunday after meeting Putin. The Kremlin called Saturday’s meeting timely and said Moscow remained committed to working with Washington toward a negotiated settlement. It confirmed that the envoys presented a peace proposal, although neither side disclosed its contents. Putin told them Russia would achieve its “objectives” in the military campaign and cited what he called the “genuine successes” of Russian forces. Independent experts said Russia had accelerated its offensive in Donbas but ruled out capturing the entire region before the harsh winter.

genuine successes

· Vladimir PutinPutin described the progress of Russian forces at the front using this phrase.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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