Russia and Ukraine accused each other of launching air attacks that struck civilian targets including infrastructure, just hours after President Vladimir Putin told President Donald Trump he would pause attacks on Ukraine's energy system, IPN reports, with reference to Reuters.
In their call on Tuesday, Putin declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire sought by Trump and previously accepted by Ukraine. Putin said he would agree to a limited pause in attacks on energy infrastructure, which was then accepted by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
After Russia launched its air attacks early on Wednesday, Zelenskiy urged the world to block any attempts by Moscow to drag out the war.
The Ukrainian authorities said Russia's drone strikes hit two hospitals in Sumy region, forcing the evacuation of patients and staff. The governor of Kyiv region Mykola Kalashnyk informed about several buildings damaged and one person injured.
Russia's defense ministry said that its units destroyed 57 Ukrainian drones overnight, 35 of them over the border Kursk region. The ministry reports only how many drones were destroyed, not how many were launched by Ukraine.
Authorities in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar said early on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack sparked a small fire at an oil depot located near the village of Kavkazskaya, and 30 employees were evacuated..
Russia's aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said that for a couple of hours overnight flights were suspended from airports in Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhnekamsk, all hundreds kilometers east of Moscow, to "ensure air safety".
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