3 killed after Moscow targets Kyiv with a mass drone attack ahead of ceasefire talks

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At slightest 3 radical were killed, including a five-year-old child, aft Russia launched a barrage of drones targeting Kyiv overnight connected Sunday, according to section Ukrainian officials and exigency services.

The onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior came up of ceasefire negotiations successful Saudi Arabia successful which Ukraine and Russia are expected to clasp indirect U.S.-mediated talks connected Monday to sermon a intermission successful long-range attacks targeting vigor facilities and civilian infrastructure.

The Ukrainian delegation is expected to conscionable with U.S. officials successful Saudi Arabia a time up of the indirect talks, Ukrainian President Voldoymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine is readying to nonstop method teams to sermon the details of the partial ceasefire.

Extended sounds of explosions were heard successful the aboriginal hours of the nighttime arsenic the aerial raid blared for implicit 5 hours. Russian drones and debris from shot-down drones, which were flying astatine little altitudes to evade aerial defenses, fell connected residential buildings. Ukraine's Kyiv City Military Administration said 3 radical were killed and 10 others were injured.

Two residential buildings successful the territory of Dnipro caught occurrence owed to falling drone debris, according to Kyiv City Military Administration caput Tymur Tkachenko. A occurrence broke retired connected the apical floors of a 9-storey building, sidesplitting 1 woman, the State Emergency Service said.

In the territory of Podil, a occurrence broke retired connected the 20th level of a 25-storey building. In Holosiivskyi, fires broke retired successful a warehouse and bureau building, sidesplitting 1 person, according to the State Emergency Service.