Biggest drone strike hits Ukraine's second city

Russia has deed Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, with a monolithic drone and bomber attack, sidesplitting 4 radical and injuring astir 60, officials say.

Two radical were besides killed successful Russian strikes connected Kherson, successful confederate Ukraine, section authorities said.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said 48 drones, 2 missiles and 4 glide bombs had been utilized against his metropolis connected Friday night, portion much glide bombs were reportedly dropped connected Saturday.

Earlier, Moscow said a monolithic question of drone and rocket attacks crossed Ukraine connected Thursday nighttime was successful effect to "terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime", aft attacks connected Russian railway infrastructure and aerial bases past weekend.

In different development, Russian and Ukrainian officials released conflicting accounts astir erstwhile a captive swap agreed astatine earlier talks would happen.

In Kharkiv, immoderate 18 flat buildings and 13 different homes were deed connected Friday night, the politician said. A babe and a 14-year-old miss were among the injured, helium added.

One civilian concern installation was attacked by 40 drones, 1 rocket and 4 bombs, Kharkiv politician Oleh Syniehubov said, adding that determination mightiness inactive beryllium radical buried nether the rubble.

In the aboriginal Russian onslaught utilizing glide bombs connected Kharkiv connected Saturday evening, 1 much idiosyncratic was killed and astatine slightest different 18 radical injured, the city's politician said.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha urged allies to summation unit connected Moscow and to instrumentality "more steps to fortify Ukraine" successful effect to Russia's latest attacks.

Six radical were killed and 80 injured crossed Ukraine connected Thursday night, erstwhile Russia attacked the state with much than 400 drones and astir 40 missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes connected Kharkiv made "no subject sense" and were "pure terrorism".

He accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of "buying himself clip to support waging the war", and said "pressure indispensable beryllium applied" to halt the attacks.

During the latest circular of nonstop talks successful Istanbul earlier this week, the 2 warring sides agreed to speech each sick and heavy wounded prisoners of war, those aged nether 25, arsenic good arsenic the bodies of 12,000 soldiers.

Moscow's main negotiator astatine the meeting, Vladimir Medinsky, said connected Saturday that Ukraine had "unexpectedly postponed some the acceptance of bodies and the speech of prisoners of warfare for an indefinite period".

He further said that the bodies of much than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been taken to an agreed speech constituent but that Ukrainian officials had ne'er arrived.

A database of 640 prisoners-of-war had besides been handed to Ukraine "in bid to statesman the exchange", Medinsky wrote connected societal media.

Ukrainian officials responded angrily to the allegations, telling Russia to "stop playing soiled games".

A connection from Ukraine's Co-ordination for PoWs bureau said that the comments did "not correspond to world oregon to erstwhile agreements".

The Co-ordination HQ said some sides had been moving connected preparations for the speech implicit the past week and alleged that Russia was not sticking to the agreed parameters of the swap.

It added that Ukraine had submitted its PoW lists according to the "clearly defined categories" of the deal, but that Russia had submitted "alternative lists that bash not correspond to the agreed-upon approach".

While an statement connected the repatriation of bodies had been reached, a day had not been set, Ukraine said, with Russia taking "unilateral steps that had not been co-ordinated".

Russian aerial strikes implicit the past 2 nights came aft weaponry attacks connected railways successful occidental Russia reportedly killed 7 radical and injured much than 100, and Ukrainian drone strikes targeted strategical warplanes astatine 4 aerial bases heavy wrong Russia.

Ukraine's information work SBU said astatine slightest 40 Russian craft had been struck during "Operation Spider's Web" past Sunday.

Ukraine says it utilized 117 drones that were archetypal smuggled into Russia, past placed wrong woody cabins mounted connected the backmost of lorries and concealed beneath remotely operated detachable roofs.

The lorries were past seemingly driven to locations adjacent the Russian aerial bases by drivers who were seemingly unaware of their cargo. The drones were past launched remotely.

On Saturday, Ukraine released much footage from that onslaught - showing a azygous drone's full flight.

US President Donald Trump said connected Friday that the Ukrainians had fixed Putin "a crushed to spell successful and weaponry the hellhole retired of them past night".

He earlier said that during a telephone call, Putin had told him "very strongly" that Moscow would "have to respond" pursuing Ukraine's airfield attacks.

Russia launched a full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022. It presently controls astir 20% of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula it annexed successful 2014 aft the overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Russian president.

Peace talks betwixt the 2 sides person truthful acold failed to unafraid a ceasefire, and some sides stay profoundly divided connected however to extremity the war, with Ukraine pushing for an "unconditional ceasefire" arsenic a archetypal step, thing Russia has repeatedly rejected.

Additional reporting by Jaroslav Lukiv and Vitaliy Shevchenko