Russia and Ukraine have swapped strikes overnight, killing at least nine people, as teams from Ukraine and the United States sought to rework a ceasefire plan.

Russian missiles and drones targeted Ukraine’s capital for yet another night, killing six people, officials in Kyiv said on Tuesday, with other parts of the country also targeted.

Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said four people died and at least three were wounded in the Svyatoshynsky district.

Emergency services earlier said two people died in a strike on an apartment building in the eastern Dniprovsky quarter.

“The Russians are deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and housing. Cynical terror,” Tkachenko said on the Telegram messenger.

“Putin gave his terrorist response to the United States’ and President Trump’s peace proposals. With a barrage of missiles and drones,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said on social media.

Oleksandr Voropaev, a resident of Karkhiv told Al Jazeera that residents of the war-stricken area in the east of Ukraine do not believe in the peace negotiations “because while they sit at the negotiating table with a pen, we are hit by missiles and bombs”.

Meanwhile, Russian officials said three people were killed and at least 16 injured in a major Ukrainian drone attack on southern Russia.

Residential buildings were damaged in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Russian officials said.

The Ministry of Defence in Moscow said that 249 Ukrainian drones were downed over Russian regions overnight, including 116 over the Black Sea and 92 over the regions of Krasnodar and Rostov.

‘A dignified peace’

The attacks followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in Switzerland’s Geneva to thrash out Washington’s so-called 28-point plan, which Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly address late on Monday, said the talks in Geneva mean the “list of the necessary steps to end the war can become doable”.

But he said there remained “sensitive issues” that he will discuss with US President Donald Trump

“After Geneva, there are fewer points – no longer 28 – and many of the right elements have been taken into account in this framework. There is still work for all of us to do together – it is very challenging – to finalise the document, and we must do everything with dignity,” he said.

“Ukraine will never be an obstacle to peace – this is our principle, a shared principle, and millions of Ukrainians are counting on, and deserve, a dignified peace,” he added.

Inconsistent

Trump, too, hinted at new progress.

“Is it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? Don’t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening,” the US president wrote earlier on Monday on his Truth Social platform.

At the White House, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said there were a couple of points of disagreement remaining, but “we’re confident that we’ll be able to work through those.”

She said Trump wanted a deal as quickly as possible, but there was no meeting currently scheduled between the US president and Zelenskyy.

Trump, who returned to office this year pledging to end the war quickly, has reoriented US policy from staunch support for Kyiv towards accepting some of Russia’s justifications for its 2022 invasion.

But Washington’s stance towards the war has been inconsistent.

Trump’s hastily arranged Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August led to worries that Washington was prepared to accept many Russian demands, but ultimately resulted in more US pressure on Russia.

The latest 28-point peace proposal again caught many in the US government, Kyiv and Europe off-guard and prompted new concerns that the Trump administration might be willing to push Ukraine to sign a peace deal heavily tilted towards Moscow.

The plan would require Kyiv to cede more territory, accept curbs on its military and bar it from ever joining NATO, conditions Kyiv has long rejected as tantamount to surrender.

It would also do nothing to allay broader European fears of further Russian aggression.

Ukraine’s European allies drew up a counter-proposal which, according to the Reuters news agency, would halt fighting at the present front lines, leaving discussions of territory for later, and include a NATO-style US security guarantee for Ukraine.

The new version of the draft worked on in Geneva has not been published.

Kremlin slams EU proposal

An adviser to Zelenskyy who attended the talks in Geneva told The Associated Press news agency they managed to discuss almost all the plan’s points, and one unresolved issue is that of territory, which can only be decided at the head-of-state level.

Oleksandr Bevz also said the US showed “great openness and understanding” that security guarantees are the cornerstone of any agreement for Ukraine.

He said the US would continue working on the plan, and then the leaders of Ukraine and the US would meet. After that, the plan would be presented to Russia.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking to reporters, welcomed the “interim result” of the Geneva talks, saying the US proposal “has now been modified in significant parts”, without details.

Merz added that Moscow must now become engaged in the process.

“The next step must be that Russia must come to the table,” he said in Angola, where he was attending a summit between African and European Union countries. “This is a laborious process. It will move forward at most in smaller steps this week. I do not expect there to be a breakthrough this week.”

The Kremlin said it had yet to see the revised peace plan.

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov added there was no plan for US and Russian delegations to meet this week, but the Russian side remained “open for such contacts”.

Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, said the plan the Kremlin had received before the Geneva talks had many provisions that “seem quite acceptable” to Moscow. But he described European proposals “floating around” as “completely unconstructive”.

Reporting from Moscow, Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova suggested that the signals coming out of Russia show that Moscow is in no mood to make concessions on its longstanding demands.

“If all Russian conditions are not taken into account, then according to Putin, Russia is ready to continue its fight on the battlefield,” she said.

Countries supporting Kyiv – part of the “coalition of the willing” – are due to hold a video call on Tuesday following the Geneva talks.

Turkiye also said it hopes to build bridges between Russia and Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said he spoke to Putin by telephone and told the Russian leader that Ankara will contribute to any diplomatic effort to facilitate direct contact between Russia and Ukraine.

Erdogan “stated that Turkiye will continue its efforts for the termination of the Russia-Ukraine war with a fair and lasting peace”, his office said.