Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow and Kyiv trade deadly strikes ahead of US-backed peace talks
Ukraine and Russia have traded deadly strikes this weekend, ahead of fresh talks next week in Geneva aimed at ending the war.
The two sides have resumed strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure in recent days, after a US-brokered moratorium on such strikes expired.
On Saturday, drone strikes killed one person in Ukraine and another in Russia, Ukrainian officials said.
An elderly woman died when a Russian drone hit a residential building in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, Ukraine’s state emergency service said.
In Russia, a civilian was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a car in the border region of Bryansk, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz said.
The attacks came ahead of another round of US-brokered talks on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, just before the fourth anniversary of the all-out Russian invasion.
Earlier on Sunday, UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said the UK and its allies exposed a “barbaric Kremlin plot” to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny as she suggested new sanctions against Moscow could follow.
The Russian embassy in London has denied Moscow was involved in Mr Navalny’s death and described the announcement as “feeble-mindedness of Western fabulists”.
