15 injured as Russian assault focusing on Ukraine’s power infrastructure in a single day
Russia pounded 4 Ukrainian cities in a single day into Wednesday, injuring a minimum of 15 folks in an assault that largely focused power infrastructure, officers mentioned.
Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, in addition to one ballistic missile, in the course of the night time, the Ukrainian air drive mentioned. The strikes focused northeastern Kharkiv, which is Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, Vinnytsia within the west and Odesa within the south.
The newest bombardment in Russia’s escalating aerial marketing campaign in opposition to civilian areas got here forward of a 2 September deadline set by US president Donald Trump for the Kremlin to succeed in a peace deal within the three-year struggle, below the specter of doable extreme Washington sanctions if it does not.
No date has but been publicly set for a doable third spherical of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine. Two earlier rounds delivered no progress other than prisoner swaps.

Arpan Rai17 July 2025 04:04