Three people died overnight after a Russian airstrike on Kiev, Ukraine's emergency services said this morning. Authorities said 29 people were injured, including seven children. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said earlier that two high-rise residential buildings were hit. Russian air defenses have shot down a drone targeting Moscow.

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• War in Ukraine lasts 1 341 days
• Three people died after Russian attack on Kiev, 29 people, including seven children, were injured
• About 200 Russian soldiers penetrated Pokrovsk, Ukraine claims

Ukrainian drones repel major Russian mechanized attack near Pokrovskoye

18:38 After months of attacks on Ukrainian positions in the surroundings of Pokrovskoye, Russian soldiers have managed to penetrate the town in Donetsk region. This was reported by the DPA agency on Sunday, citing information from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published on Facebook.

According to them, several small groups of Russian soldiers infiltrated the city, bypassing Ukrainian defense lines. Approximately 200 soldiers engaged in heavy fighting with Ukrainian troops. Both sides also deployed combat drones.

The fighting in Pokrovskoye is characterized by"high dynamics and intensity," the Ukrainian General Staff said. In addition, the Russian army is trying to break through Ukrainian defense lines using tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

The General Staff denied the Russian side's claims that Ukrainian troops in Pokrovskoe were completely surrounded. On the contrary, it claims that large areas around it have been recaptured, thereby stabilizing the situation in this sector and along the access roads to Pokrovskoe.

Over the past ten days, Ukrainian forces have recaptured the villages of Kucheriv Yar and Suchetke, north of Pokrovsk, the General Staff said. DPA noted that this information could not be independently verified, but according to the interactive DeepState map, which tracks the situation on the battlefield and whose creators have ties to the military, they are under Kiev's control.

12:51 It is not correct to talk about the cancellation of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today, according to Reuters, referring to the canceled summit of the leaders in Budapest. According to Peskov, the meeting between Trump and Putin must first be prepared and is a complicated process.

"Presidents cannot meet just to meet, they cannot just waste time, and they say that openly. That is why they instructed (Russian Foreign Minister Sergei) Lavrov and (US Secretary of State Mark) Rubio to prepare this process. It is a complicated process," Peskov said.

US President Trump said on Saturday that he would not meet with his Russian counterpart Putin until a peace deal can be reached between Russia and Ukraine."You know, we have to make a deal, I'm not going to waste my time," Trump told reporters.

The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, and dozens of their subsidiaries. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington had imposed the sanctions because Putin refused to end the war in Ukraine. Trump later said he had canceled a planned summit with his Russian counterpart in Budapest because it did not feel right to hold it now.

Moscow sent its chief negotiator Kirill Dmitriev to Washington after the imposition of US sanctions. He wrote on the social network X on Friday that his visit had been planned some time ago at the invitation of the American side. According to him, the dialogue between Russia and the US must continue. According to the AFP agency, Dmitriev met with representatives of the Trump administration on Saturday. According to the Axios server, he met with Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami that day.

10:13 The Russian airstrike on Kiev has killed three people and injured nearly three dozen, with the Ukrainian Air Force destroying the vast majority of enemy drones. At the same time, Russia announced that its air defenses had shot down more than eight dozen Ukrainian drones in other regions.

The latest death toll from the night attack in the Ukrainian capital has confirmed three deaths and 29 injuries, including seven children. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old girl and her 46-year-old mother were among the dead. The injured were treated either on the spot or taken to hospital in Kiev.

Emergency services are working in the vast Desnianska district near two residential buildings, where fires and evacuations have been reported. Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the second and third floors of a nine-story building were hit, as well as a 16-story building that was hit by debris from an apparently downed Russian drone.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia sent a total of 101 drones into Ukraine, with air defenses neutralizing or shooting down 90 of them. Of this total, 60 were Iranian Shahid drones, with their debris landing in five locations.

The Russian Defense Ministry also reported its own toll, saying a total of 82 Ukrainian drones had been destroyed over Russian regions, as well as the Black and Azov Seas. Moscow also faced attacks, with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin saying Russian air defenses had destroyed a drone targeting the Russian capital.

9:58 During Sunday's press conference, Prime Minister Robert Fico also returned to financing the war in Ukraine, where the European Union will take over Kiev's military expenses. The American president backed out of financing Kiev, the Chinese president and the Indian prime minister consider it a regional conflict, Fico said. According to the prime minister, it is absurd that Europe goes to America to buy weapons and gives them to Ukraine.

8:35 Russian President Vladimir Putin visited one of the headquarters of Russian forces involved in the fighting in Ukraine. According to the Russian state-run TASS news agency, Putin, in the presence of the Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov and other commanders, listened to a report on the situation in the area of the"special military operation", as Moscow and its media describe Russian aggression against Ukraine. According to the agencies, Gerasimov told Putin, among other things, that Russian forces had surrounded the strategic Pokrovsk, and informed him about the test of the new Burevestnik intercontinental ballistic missile. It is a guided missile with a flat trajectory and nuclear propulsion.

7:05 The drone revolution on the Russian-Ukrainian front has made it impossible to repeat the rapid penetration of troops into the strategic depths of enemy territory that occurred during the first days of the large-scale invasion. And since the Kremlin refuses to negotiate peace, the outcome of the war will depend on whose economy and society collapse first - Ukraine or Russia, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), quoted by the Unian agency.

"Russia's refusal to agree to a ceasefire and the cancelled peace summit in Budapest have raised the grim prospect that the war in Ukraine will drag on for years. President Vladimir Putin remains convinced that Russia will eventually exhaust its smaller neighbor, leading to the collapse of the Ukrainian economy and society," the newspaper reports.

The Wall Street Journal, according to UNIAN, notes that despite the Kremlin's hopes, Ukraine is far from defeated. With strategic breakthroughs now impossible due to the threat of drones, Kiev hopes to achieve victory by economically exhausting Russia with large-scale strikes against its oil and gas infrastructure, which feeds Putin's military machine.

A former senior member of Zelensky's administration told the Wall Street Journal that the war will likely continue for several more years, as both sides have the capacity to continue fighting. He believes the conflict will end either with the collapse of Russia's imperial project or the demise of an independent Ukraine.

“We are still expecting a political collapse of Russia, as happened to Germany in 1918, when it lost the war despite the fact that there was not a single enemy soldier on German soil at that time. This collapse is not happening now. But sooner or later, such things always happen,” says Russian economist Konstantin Sonin, now a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, in the Wall Street Journal.

7:00 Three people died overnight after a Russian air strike on Kiev, Ukraine's emergency services said this morning. Authorities said 29 people, including seven children, were injured. According to an earlier statement by Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, two high-rise residential buildings were hit. Russian air defenses have neutralized a drone targeting Moscow, the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, said. Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 82 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, according to TASS.

Some of the injured were treated on the spot in Kiev, while others had to be taken to hospital, the Kiev news agency wrote without further details.

Klitschko said that in the vast Desna district of the Ukrainian capital, rescue workers were working at a nine-story building where the second and third floors were hit, as well as at a 16-story building hit by debris, apparently from a downed Russian drone.

Moscow Mayor Sobyanin wrote that rescue services are responding to the crash site of the wreckage of a downed Ukrainian drone targeting the metropolis, but he did not provide details about the location.