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Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia launched a series of drone strikes that reached civil areas during the night and damaged a hospital in Ukraine After a phone call between the presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin during which the Russian leader refused to support a complete 30 -day cove. Mr. Trump had said that Putin agreed During the call to immediately stop the attacks “about all energy and infrastructure” in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, however, that Russia’s attacks continued to affect the civil and energy infrastructure of his country, despite Putin’s alleged agreement with Trump. Zelenskyy said that Moscow’s refusal to stop all attacks demonstrated the need for greater pressure on Moscow to prevent Putin from prolonging war.
“This confirms that we must continue pressing Russia for the good of peace,” he said Tuesday night. “Only a real detained for Russia’s attacks against civil infrastructure can indicate a genuine desire to end this war and bring peace closer.”
The White House described the call between Mr. Trump and Putin as the first step in a “movement towards peace” that hopes to include a high sea fire in the black Sea and, finally, a complete and lasting ending for fighting. But there were no indications that Putin has moved away from his conditions for a possible peace agreement, which is fiercely opposed to kyiv.
According to the reading of the Russian Government of the telephone call of the leaders, Putin reiterated that for a high full fire, Moscow would require a complete limit of all military and intelligence support for kyiv of the United States and its western partners. Those terms were not mentioned by the White House on Tuesday.
“I do not think we should make any concession in terms of assistance for Ukraine, but there should be an increase in assistance for Ukraine,” said Zelenskyy on Wednesday, reaction to Russian demands apparently unchanged.
Ukraine state emergency service
Shortly after Mr. Trump and Putin finished his long phone call, Air Raid Sirens sounded in kyiv, followed by explosions when the residents took refuge.
Despite the efforts to repel the attack, several attacks affected civil infrastructure, including a direct drone attack in a hospital in Sumy and attacks against cities in the Donetsk region. Russian drones about kyiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kirovahrad, Dnipropetrovsk and Cherkasy Regions were also reported.
Emergency services said the hospital in Sumy was damaged and that some 150 patients were evacuated, but no victim reported. That drone attack was first reported by the best assistant to Zelenskyy Andriy Yermak, who, in A publication on social networks Approximately six hours after Mr. Trump’s call with Putin ended, he said: “Russia is attacking civil infrastructure and people at this time,” specifically mentioning the attack against the health center.
Speaking on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of “counteracting our common efforts (Russians-American)” by attacking Russia’s infrastructure. Peskov said that the Russian army had taken measures on Tuesday to stop its own planned attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure following the so-called Trump-Poutin, including knocking down seven of its own drones.
He said that Ukraine had time to do the same, reversing his own drone attack against Russia, but that he had chosen not to do it.
The Russian Defense Ministry said early Wednesday that its aerial defenses had intercepted 57 Ukrainian drones on the Azov Sea and several Russian regions: the border provinces of Kursk and Bryansk and the nearby regions of Oryol and Tula.
Separately, the authorities of the Krasnodar region that border the Crimean Peninsula, which was occupied and then unilaterally attached to Russia in 2014 and remains under the control of Moscow, reported that a drone attack had begun a fire in an oil deposit.
