KYIV: A serious Ukrainian drone assault set a number of Russian arms depots ablaze, destroying what Ukraine’s Normal Workers mentioned had been hundreds of tons of weaponry, together with missiles from North Korea. President Volodymyr Zelensky, in the meantime, appealed for fast motion from the USA to ship extra weapons earlier than his go to to the White Home subsequent week with a multi-point “victory plan”.Ukraine launched greater than 100 drones at Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula in a single day, Russian information experiences and the defence ministry mentioned on Saturday.The strikes set an arms depot on hearth that seemed to be close to the identical city as one struck by Ukrainian drones earlier this week, in an assault that wounded 13 folks and likewise precipitated an enormous blaze. Arms and ammunition depots had been additionally hit on Saturday in Russia’s southern Krasnodar area.In Ukraine, a 12-year-old boy and two older ladies had been killed as Russian missiles in a single day struck Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown in central Ukraine, native governor Serhii Lysak mentioned. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second metropolis, 15 folks together with younger teenagers had been wounded by Russian airstrikes on Friday night, mayor Ihor Terekhov mentioned, greater than twice as many as initially reported. Russian drone and artillery strikes additionally wounded a minimum of three civilians in Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, officers reported, whereas a fourth was wounded after an airstrike hit the town of Sumy. APRussia: Received’t attend Ukraine peace summitRussia mentioned Saturday it might not attend a attainable second Ukraine peace summit in November, regardless of Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky signalling that this time he would invite Moscow’s representatives. Moscow rejected the concept forward of Zelensky’s travels to the USA, the place he is because of current his peace proposals to Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. “The summit may have the identical intention: to advertise the unviable ‘Zelensky method’ as the one foundation for resolving the battle, get assist for it from the world majority and with that current Russia with an ultimatum on capitulation,” international ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned in a press release. “We won’t participate in such ‘summits’,” she added. (AFP)
