Both sides in the war reported a surge of new attacks, and Russian state media stated that a 12-hour-long conference between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine had come to an end.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that a missile assault on Sumy in northern Ukraine on Monday injured around 90 people, including 17 children, while the negotiations were being held at a five-star hotel in Riyadh.
According to the regional prosecutor’s office, the assault on a “densely populated residential area” caused damage to apartments and an educational facility. Earlier, the city’s acting mayor claimed that a hospital was impacted.
Russian media meanwhile said two journalists and their driver were killed when their car was struck “in the zone of the special military operation”, using Moscow’s term for its full-scale offensive in Ukraine.
President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to the three-year war and hopes the latest round of talks in the Saudi capital will pave the way for a breakthrough.
The Ukrainian negotiating team was staying in Riyadh for another day to meet with US representatives, a source in the delegation told Suspilne news, with another source also telling AFP a second meeting was likely — a sign that progress may have been made.
Russia’s state-run TASS news agency cited a source as saying that the meeting with the US had ended after “more than 12 hours of consultations” and that a joint statement on the results would be published Tuesday.
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