LONDON — A minimum of seven folks have been killed and 27 have been injured throughout Ukraine in a single day into Tuesday as Russia continued long-range assaults on a number of cities, native officers stated.
Ukraine’s air power stated it recorded 112 Russian drones launched into the nation in a single day, 75 of which have been both shot down or neutralized in flight. The air power reported impacts in 11 places throughout the nation.
Many of the reported deaths have been clustered in two northeastern areas of Ukraine, near the entrance traces.
Three folks have been killed and 20 have been injured by a Russian cluster rocket assault on town of Sumy, native authorities stated. A minimum of 5 rockets landed in open areas of town heart, the Sumy Regional Administration stated, together with alongside a busy highway stuffed with vehicles and morning commuters.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a publish to social media that the “savage strike” was a “totally deliberate assault on civilians.”
Firefighters extinguish vehicles hit by a Russian navy strike in Sumy, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025.
State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/through Reuters
One other three folks have been killed and 6 have been injured within the Kharkiv area on account of Russian shelling, the regional navy administration stated.
One particular person was killed and 13 have been injured by Russian fireplace within the southern Kherson area, stated Oleksandr Prokudin, the top of the native navy administration.
5 folks have been additionally injured by strikes within the northern metropolis of Chernihiv and 5 others within the southern Black Coastline metropolis of Odesa, in accordance with officers there.
In his Tuesday morning message, Zelenskyy stated the continued Russian assaults point out that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no real curiosity in peace, regardless of the Kremlin’s participation in ongoing U.S.-brokered talks to finish its 3-year-old invasion.
Ukrainian and Russian representatives met in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday for a second spherical of direct negotiations, the 2 sides having beforehand gathered within the metropolis for the primary spherical in Might. That assembly allowed the primary face-to-face peace talks between the 2 sides because the spring of 2022.
Ukraine is demanding a full 30-day ceasefire throughout which period peace negotiations can happen. Zelenskyy additionally stated forward of Monday’s assembly that Kyiv desires the discharge of all prisoners and the return of Ukrainian kids forcibly taken to Russia throughout Moscow’s invasion. Zelenskyy additionally steered direct future talks with Putin.
In a “peace memorandum” delivered to Ukraine’s negotiating staff on Monday, Russia set out comparable maximalist calls for to these issued through the opening days of its spring 2022 invasion.
Among the many calls for are a Ukrainian withdrawal from all 4 Ukrainian areas that Russia claims — Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk — together with areas that Russian troops don’t occupy. Moscow stated it might settle for a ceasefire if Ukraine agreed to cease receiving international weapons and finish mobilization — two calls for Kyiv has rejected.
Moscow can be demanding limitations on the dimensions of Ukraine’s armed forces, a everlasting block on Ukrainian NATO accession, worldwide recognition of Russian management over the areas of Ukraine it claims, the lifting of all sanctions and Ukraine to desert its demand for warfare reparations to be paid by Moscow.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov advised journalists on Tuesday that there was no important breakthrough throughout Monday’s talks. “It will be incorrect to count on any fast choices or breakthroughs right here,” he stated. “However work is ongoing.”
A gathering between Putin, Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump “is unlikely within the close to future,” Peskov continued.
Dmitry Medvedev — the previous Russian president and prime minister now serving because the deputy chairman of the nation’s Safety Council — wrote on Telegram that the talks “usually are not meant to attain a compromise peace based mostly on some imaginary and unrealistic situations invented by others, however relatively to safe our swift victory and the whole destruction” of Zelenskyy’s authorities.
Zelenskyy on Tuesday stated it’s “apparent: with out international strain — with out decisive actions from the USA, Europe, and everybody on the planet who has the ability — Putin won’t agree even to a ceasefire.”
“Not a single day goes by with out Russia placing Ukrainian cities and villages,” the president continued.
“Day by day, we lose our folks to Russian terror. Day by day, Russia provides new causes for more durable sanctions and stronger help for our protection. I’m grateful to everybody all over the world who’s selling precisely this agenda: sanctions for aggression and the killing of individuals, and help in defending the lives of Ukrainians.”
Firefighters work at a terminal of a non-public postal firm the location of a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025.
State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/through Reuters
Ukraine continued its personal long-range strike marketing campaign into Russia in a single day. The Protection Ministry in Moscow stated its forces downed eight Ukrainian drones on Monday night time into Tuesday morning.
Monday’s Istanbul talks have been held regardless of Ukraine’s audacious covert operation concentrating on Russian strategic bombers on Sunday, during which drones hid behind vehicles attacked a minimum of 5 airfields deep inside Russian territory.
Zelenskyy advised ABC Information’ Chief World Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz that the assault was a “strategic operation” that “is certainly decreasing Russia’s potential, and demonstrates that Ukraine is engaged on sure steps.”
“Until they may cease, we’ll proceed,” he stated.
Requested whether or not he was glad with the Trump administration’s involvement, Zelenskyy advised Raddatz, “We’re searching for very sturdy steps on the a part of President Trump to help the sanctions and to power President Putin to cease this warfare, or a minimum of proceed with the primary stage of placing an finish to this warfare — that’s the ceasefire.”
ABC Information’ Will Gretsky, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Patrick Reevell contributed to this report.
