Russian drone strikes killed at least 5 individuals and injured more than 30 in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities said Friday, the most recent barrage in the middle of installing U.S.
pressure for a ceasefire.Russia and Ukraine have stepped up aerial attacks even as U.S.
President Donald Trump presses them to come to the negotiating table and strike an offer to end more than three years of costly fighting.The attack on Kharkiv came hours before French and British military chiefs arrived in Kyiv for talks on how a European peacekeeping force might be released to Ukraine to assist enforce any future ceasefire.
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As of this minute, 5 individuals are dead and 32 are wounded, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on social media, updating the previous toll.An AFP press reporter in the city saw rescue employees climbing through the smoldering debris of a ruined domestic structure, as grey smoke swallowed up the air where apartment or condos utilized to stand.Ukraine has actually consistently implicated Russia of targeting residential areas and civilians throughout its three-year invasion.Moscow denies actively firing on non-military targets, regardless of thousands of civilians having actually been eliminated in Russian air campaign, consisting of on schools, medical facilities and house blocks.