Moscow launches daytime strikes targeting various settlements across Zaporizhzhia and Sumy, injuring at least 11 people. The attacks come as Zelenskyy meets with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Berlin, as Washington intensifies its efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service says 11 people were injured in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, including one child, a police officer and an emergency worker, after Russian forces launched daytime airstrikes on the area.
Authorities say the strike caused damage to a residential area, including buildings, a supermarket, retail stores and civilian vehicles.
Local officials say Moscow deployed a double-tap tactic, with the first projectile striking its target around 11 am local time, while a second attack came some minutes after, injuring the police officer and emergency responder who were catering to the affected civilians.
A separate attack targeted the northeastern Sumy region on Sunday. Local officials say a Russian airstrike targeted a high-rise residential building in the Zarechny district of Sumy. That attack caused no casualties, according to the State Emergency Service.
The upper floors of the building were badly damaged. More than 100 windows were blown out in about 40 private civilian apartments.
Rescuers were deployed to the attack sites to offer assistance to all the impacted civilians, escort them to safety and provide basic first aid to those injured.
Regional authorities say the Kremlin’s attacks targeted civilian infrastructure, residential properties, civilian cars and retail stores in more than 13 settlements across Sumy within the last 24 hours.
The attacks come despite beefed-up global efforts, led by US President Donald Trump to bring Russia’s war on Ukraine, well into its fourth year, to a close.
Sunday’s attacks also comes as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US special envoy Steve Wiktoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Berlin, to hold another round of talks aimed at bridging gaps and ending the fighting.