Amid the widespread speculation of a possible ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine, the former had reportedly launched missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, killing six people, including two children, and forcing power outages nationwide.

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According to Reuters, officials disclosed the incident on Wednesday, as plans for a summit of Russian and U.S. leaders were shelved after Moscow rejected a ceasefire.
Debris from downed weapons strewed the Ukrainian capital, sparking fires in half its districts, Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.
“Ukraine long ago agreed to the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, while Moscow is doing everything to keep the killing going,” Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said in a Telegram post after the newest Russian attacks.
“This means collective actions against Putin are currently insufficient, and we must all do more together to make him stop killing our people.”
Reuters revealed that the comments came after the White House on Tuesday put on hold a planned summit of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Moscow rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire.
A senior U.S. official told Reuters there were no plans for a meeting soon.
According to Ukraine’s emergency service, the attack on Kyiv resulted in two deaths. Additionally, four people, including two children, died in the surrounding region from the aftermath of the Russian strikes.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that ten people were rescued from a fire in a high-rise building in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district. Across the city, five people—including one child—were admitted to the hospital following the incident.
Officials said fires also broke out in the districts of Desnianskyi, Darnytskyi and Pecherskyi, the last home to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history.
Ukrainian officials said the attacks ran through most of the night and early Wednesday, initially with ballistic missiles and subsequently drone strikes.
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
“All night the enemy struck the country’s energy infrastructure,” Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said on Telegram, with no details.
The ministry, in a separate post, reported widespread emergency power outages across most regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv and the surrounding area. These blackouts were a direct consequence of the Russian attack on energy infrastructure.
In the central region of Poltava, oil and gas facilities were damaged in the Myrhorod district by the Russian attack, the regional governor said.
In the frontline southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, which has been subject to continued strikes and shelling by Russian forces, 13 people were wounded in overnight attacks, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said on Wednesday.
Russia has consistently hit Ukrainian energy facilities since launching a full-scale invasion of the country in 2022, maintaining that they are a legitimate military target in the war.
A Tuesday attack on Ukraine killed four and left hundreds of thousands without power and many without water in what Kyiv said was Moscow’s latest salvo in a campaign to break its neighbour’s energy system ahead of winter.