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Russia and Ukraine exchanged deadly drone strikes ahead of the United Nations General Assembly kicking off in New York this week.
“Rescue efforts and rubble clearing continue after the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia — guided aerial bombs targeted civilian infrastructure, ordinary homes. Fifteen apartment buildings and ten private houses have been damaged,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on the social platform X early Monday morning.
“As of now, three people are confirmed killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Donetsk, Dnipro, Sumy, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions also came under drone attacks overnight. Over 140 drones in total were launched, some of them ‘shaheds,’” he added. Shaheds are Iranian-made drones.
Sergei Aksyonov, who was appointed by Russia as head of the Crimean Peninsula, claimed that Ukrainian drones that hit a vacation resort killed three people and injured 16 on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
Since the start of his second term, President Trump and his administration have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine, which will reach a four-year mark in February.
Trump met this summer with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Zelensky in Washington, D.C., looking for a path to peace. Zelensky recently said he expected to meet again with Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
Trump and Zelensky are expected to talk about security guarantees, supported by both the Ukrainians and their European allies.
“The UN General Assembly is now effectively beginning its work, with leaders gathering in New York. And it’s for the fourth time in a row that Russia accompanies one of the world’s highest-level annual diplomatic events with killings. That is precisely why it is so important for this diplomatic week to be productive,” Zelensky said in his early Monday X post.
