INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
and European officials on the conflict.At least 12 people were reported killed and dozens wounded Thursday as Russia pounded Ukraine with
drone strikes and shells."Russia uses every day and every night to kill
We must put pressure on the killers..
to end this war and guarantee a lasting peace," Zelensky said in a Telegram post.Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said he had arrived
without saying with whom.U.S
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Keith Kellogg, President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, are meeting French President Emmanuel
Macron on Thursday about crafting a ceasefire in Ukraine.The meeting comes after a spate of deadly Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities
that has triggered outrage in Kyiv and Europe.Zelensky's office said his team in Paris will discuss "bringing peace to Ukraine.""Among other
things, the parties will discuss ways to implement a full and unconditional ceasefire, the deployment of a multinational military contingent
to ensure security, and the further development of Ukraine's security architecture," Ukraine's presidency said in a statement.The Kremlin
dismissed the talks and accused Kyiv's allies of wanting to drag out the war."Unfortunately we see from Europeans a focus on continuing the
war," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists when asked about what he expected from the talks.Russia launched a "massive" drone
salvo overnight on the city of Dnipro that killed three and wounded more than 30, local Governor Serhiy Lysak said.Fires broke out at
apartment blocks in the city after the attack.Two more were killed in artillery strikes in Nikopol, down south from Dnipro, Lysak added,
while local officials also reported fatalities in the frontline areas in the Donetsk and Kherson regions.In Kherson, an ambulance crew was
hit by a drone while transporting a patient, wounding the driver, police said.Russia's army also claimed to have captured a small village in
the eastern Donetsk region, where its troops have been grinding forward for months.
