Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to cease attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Russia and Ukraine launched drone assaults on each other’s territory. According to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia launched over 40 drones at Ukraine overnight, striking a hospital and other civilian facilities.
Zelenskyy claimed that following a protracted phone conversation on Tuesday, Russia had essentially “rejected the proposal for a full ceasefire” that Putin and US President Donald Trump had agreed upon. Putin refused to support the US’s initial proposal for a full 30-day truce, insisting that the West stop providing Kyiv with any military assistance before Moscow could fully carry out the agreement.
Within hours of the call, Zelenskyy claimed “hits, specifically on civilian infrastructure. Zelensky urged the West to keep arming Kyiv, saying, “Russia’s nighttime attacks are what destroy our energy sector, our infrastructure, and the normal life of Ukrainians.
A Russian drone strike in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region left portions of the railway without electricity, according to Ukrzaliznytsya, the country’s state railway company, on Wednesday morning. The Russian Defense Ministry declared that it had shot down 57 Ukrainian drones over night, most of them over the area near the Kursk border. As agreed upon after Putin and Trump spoke over the phone, Moscow and Kyiv will trade 175 inmates on Wednesday, notwithstanding the attacks.
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