Deadly attacks before important meeting: Russian drones killed just hours before talks with Zelensky

Two people lost their lives in Russian drone attacks in Ukraine, local officials announced on Sunday. The attacks took place before the planned negotiations of European leaders with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.

During a drone attack in the Záparož region in the south of the country a 56-year-old man died, zoomed in on the Ukrainian rescue service on the Telegram platform. Another Russian strike with drones and aerial bombs in the Dnepropetrovsk region killed a 59-year-old man, said the local governor, Oleksandr Hanža, on Telegram. A 35-year-old man was injured and also damaged the infrastructure.

They will hold talks in London on Sunday british prime minister Keir Starmer French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz with President Zelensky about the latest developments in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict.

The negotiations will take place after Zelenskyi invited Russian President Vladimir Putin for a personal meeting in an open letter on Thursday. He also suggested a full cease-fire during negotiations to end the war, the exchange of all prisoners of war, and the adoption of arrangements for the return of civilians and children abducted during the war.

Putin first indicated that they could hold talks in Moscow at any time, but later announced that he considers such a meeting pointless until a peace agreement is prepared.

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