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Russian troops launched some 109 drones and five missiles across
Ukraine overnight and into Saturday, the Ukrainian air force
said. Three of the missiles and 42 drones were destroyed and
another 30 drones failed to reach their targets without causing
damage, it said.
A 9-year-old girl was killed in a strike on the front-line
village of Dolynka in the Zaporizhzhia region, and a 16-year-old
was injured, Zaporizhzhia’s Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.
“One house was destroyed. The shockwave from the blast also
damaged several other houses, cars, and outbuildings,” Fedorov
wrote on Telegram.
Another man was killed by Russian shelling in Ukraine's Kherson
region, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
Moscow did not comment on either attack.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had gained
control of the Ukrainian village of Novopil in the Donetsk
region, and took the village of Vodolahy in the northern Sumy
region. Ukrainian authorities in Sumy ordered mandatory
evacuations in 11 more settlements as Russian forces make steady
gains in the area.
The new additions bring the total number of settlements under
evacuation orders in Sumy, which borders Russia’s Kursk region,
to 213.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said some 50,000
Russian troops had amassed in the area with the intention of
launching an offensive to carve out a buffer zone inside
Ukrainian territory.
Elsewhere, 14 people were injured including four children after
Ukrainian drones struck apartment buildings Saturday in the
Russian town of Rylsk and the village of Artakovo in the western
Kursk region, local acting Gov. Alexander Khinshtein said.
Andrii Yermak, a top adviser to Zelenskyy, said Friday that Kyiv
was ready to resume direct peace talks with Russia in Istanbul
on Monday but that the Kremlin should first provide a promised
memorandum setting out its position on ending the more than
three-year war.
Zelenskyy said Friday that Russia was “undermining diplomacy” by
withholding the document.
“For some reason, the Russians are concealing this document.
This is an absolutely bizarre position. There is no clarity
about the format,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
Moscow previously said it would share its memorandum during the
talks.
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