Kyiv (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Ukrainian officials said Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 12 despite an agreement on a limited ceasefire.
Twelve drones hit Zaporizhzhia, police said. Regional director Ivan Fedorov stated that residential buildings, cars and communal facilities were set on fire in the Friday night attack.
In Zaporizhzhia, three members of one family were killed. The bodies of the daughter and father were retrieved from under the rubble while more than ten hours were spent fighting for the life of the mother, Fedorov wrote in the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched a total of 179 drones and decoys in the latest wave of raids overnight into Saturday. It stated that 100 were thwarted and another 63 lost, likely having been electronically obstructed.
Officials in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk areas also reported fires spreading due to the falling remains from intercepted drones. Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, expressed its air defence systems destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones.
What are the disagreements over the ceasefire agreement?
A limited ceasefire has been reached between Ukraine and Russia after a meeting between Trump and their leaders. However, it is unclear what possible targets would be off-limits.
The three sides held starkly different views about what the agreement covered. While the White House stated “energy and infrastructure” would be part of the deal, Russia declared that the deal referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he would also like railways and ports to be protected.
Zelenskyy stated after Wednesday’s call with Trump that Ukraine and U.S. negotiators will examine technical details linked to the partial ceasefire during a gathering in Saudi Arabia. Kremlin negotiators are also set to maintain separate discussions with U.S. officials there.
Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine is willing to participate in a 30-day ceasefire that Trump has proposed, stating:
We will not be against any format, any steps toward unconditional ceasefire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin conditionally agreed to a complete ceasefire if arms supplies were halted to Kyiv and Ukraine’s military mobilisation was suspended, demands denied by Ukraine and its Western partners.
