At least five killed in Russian air strikes on Pryluky in first such attack since November

At slightest 5 people, including a one-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed connected Thursday successful an overnight drone onslaught connected nan bluish Ukrainian metropolis of Pryluky, officials said.

Six drones deed a residential area successful nan metropolis soon earlier dawn, injuring 9 others, according to authorities.

The one-year-old killed was nan grandchild of nan section occurrence chief, Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

The occurrence chief, identified by section officials arsenic 50-year-old Oleksandr Lebid, "arrived to respond to nan aftermath correct astatine his ain home," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected Telegram. "It turned retired that a Shahed drone deed his house."

"Today our hearts are scorched by pain," nan constabulary unit wrote connected Telegram. "This is not conscionable a nonaccomplishment — it is 3 generations of life uprooted."

Liudmyla Horbunova, 55, who lives crossed nan thoroughfare from wherever nan Shahed drone hit, said Shyhyda had moved pinch her boy past play to her parents' location from her location successful Kyiv because she was frightened of imaginable Russian attacks connected nan capital.

"She ran distant from Shaheds successful Kyiv, but they recovered her here, successful Pryluky," Horbunova told AP.

Pryluky, which had a pre-war organization of immoderate 50,000 people, lies astir 100 kilometres eastbound of nan superior Kyiv. The metropolis is acold from nan beforehand statement and does not big immoderate known subject assets.

The past clip Pryluky was struck was successful November past year, erstwhile a Russian rocket deed an administrative building and injured 1 person.

Zelenskyy said a full of 103 drones and 1 ballistic rocket targeted aggregate Ukrainian regions overnight, including Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipro and Kherson.

"This is different monolithic strike," Zelenskyy said. "It is yet different logic to enforce nan strongest imaginable sanctions and use unit collectively."

More group wounded successful Kharkiv

Hours later, 19 group were injured successful a Russian drone onslaught connected nan eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv.

Those wounded included children, a pregnant woman, and a 93-year-old, location Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote connected Telegram.

At astir 1:05 am, Shahed-type drones struck 2 flat buildings successful nan city's Slobidskyi district, causing fires and destroying respective backstage vehicles.

"By launching attacks while group slumber successful their homes, nan force erstwhile again confirms its maneuver of insidious terror," Syniehubov wrote connected Telegram.

Those attacks came conscionable hours aft US President Donald Trump spoke by telephone pinch his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

According to Trump, Putin said "very strongly" that Russia will retaliate for Ukraine's stunning drone attacks connected subject airfields heavy wrong Russia connected Sunday.

Diplomatic efforts to extremity Russia's much than three-year-long warfare person truthful acold delivered nary important progress, and Moscow's grinding warfare of attrition has continued unabated.

Zelenskyy, who has accepted a US ceasefire connection and offered to meet pinch Putin successful an effort to break nan stalemate successful negotiations, wants much world sanctions connected Russia to unit it to judge a settlement.

Putin has shown nary willingness to meet pinch Zelenskyy and has indicated no readiness to compromise.

Germany's caller Chancellor Friedrich Merz is owed to meet Trump successful Washington connected Thursday arsenic he useful to support nan US connected committee pinch Western negotiated and subject support for Ukraine.