INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The largest known Russian drone attack since the full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three
people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on Friday.As of 8 a.m
local time, Russia had launched 273 drones, targeting the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, Ukraine's air force said.Based on data
provided by the air force, this was Russia's largest drone attack on Ukraine since the war began
The record was previously held by a Feb
barrage killed a 28-year-old woman in the capital region and injured at least three people, including a 4-year-old child, Ukrainian
governor of the Kyiv region, posted on Telegram.Kyiv and the region around it, as well as the eastern part of Ukraine, were under air raid
alert for nine straight hours overnight before it was finally called off around 9 a.m
Countering Disinformation, wrote on Telegram about Sunday's attack.Air defence units destroyed 88 of the drones overnight
The attack also included 128 simulator drones that were lost along the way without hitting anything, Ukraine's air force said.On Saturday, a
Russian drone attack killed nine civilians after hitting a shuttle bus in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, Kyiv said
injured in the Obukhiv district just south of Kyiv were hospitalized, Kalashnik said
Several residential buildings were damaged in the area, he added.In Kyiv, fragments of a destroyed drone damaged the roof of a
non-residential building, the city's military administration said
There were no reports of injuries, it added.Reuters witnesses in and around Kyiv heard blasts that sounded like air defence units in
There was no immediate comment from Russia.Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, but thousands have been killed in the conflict,
the vast majority of them Ukrainian.The first direct talks in three years between Russia and Ukraine on Friday failed to broker the
temporary ceasefire Kyiv and its allies have been urging
However, the 100-minute talks in Istanbul yielded an agreement to trade 1,000 prisoners of war on each side.U.S
President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday.
