Russia and Ukraine traded attacks overnight, with seven killed on the Ukrainian side, shortly after US President Donald Trump‘s envoy held talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg.
Trump sought to strike an optimistic tone after US envoy Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Putin on Wednesday, saying negotiators were ‘maybe now the closest we’ve been’ to ending the war.
The Kremlin indicated it was ‘in principle’ open to the resumption of trilateral talks involving the two sides and the United States.
But attacks did not let up in the wake of the visit.
Moscow‘s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people had been wounded
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