Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump\u2019s plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to \u201cSTOP!\u201d attacking its neighbor. <\/p>\n
At least eight people were killed in drone strikes across the country, a night after Russia launched its deadliest bombardment of Ukraine since the middle of last year. <\/p>\n
A drone attack on the eastern city of Pavlohrad on Friday killed three people, including a 76-year-old woman and a child, and injured 10 others, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said. <\/p>\n
In southern Ukraine, two people were also killed in strikes <\/strong>on Kherson, the region\u2019s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said, adding the strikes <\/strong>targeted critical infrastructure and residential buildings. Two more people died in attacks on Ukraine\u2019s eastern Donetsk region, and one person was killed in Kharkiv in the northeast of the country, regional leaders said. <\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s capital Kyiv was the main target of Russia\u2019s massive bombardment on Thursday, which hit several locations across the city, killing 12 people and wounding 87 others. Ukraine\u2019s emergency services said on Friday that it had completed the search for survivors in the rubble of one residential block, hit by what Ukrainian authorities said was a North Korean ballistic missile. <\/p>\n The fresh round of attacks come after President Trump vented his frustration over the lack of progress on a peace deal on Thursday, saying he is \u201cnot happy\u201d and urging Putin to \u201cSTOP!\u201d the attacks, in a post on his Truth Social platform. Hours later, however, Trump said he believed both Russia and Ukraine want peace. <\/p>\n On Friday, <\/strong>Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to arrive in Moscow for further talks with Putin on reaching an agreement. <\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was \u201cready to reach a deal,\u201d in an interview with CBS News on Thursday, but added that there were still some specific points that needed to be \u201cfine-tuned.\u201d <\/p>\n Earlier this week, Trump launched a new tirade against Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky, accusing him of harming peace negotiations, after Zelensky said it was against his country\u2019s constitution to recognize Russian control of Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. <\/p>\n Any move to recognize Russia\u2019s control of Crimea would reverse a decade of US policy and could upset the widely held post-World War Two consensus that international borders should not be changed by force. <\/p>\n The spat over Crimea is the latest in a series of very public disagreements between Trump and Zelensky. <\/p>\n Trump has insisted he has been equally as tough on Putin, but got defensive on Thursday when asked by White House reporters what concessions Russia had made in the conflict. <\/p>\n \u201cStopping the war, stopping taking the whole country. Pretty big concession,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that, and some people that are close to it know or he wouldn\u2019t be talking right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}