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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Ukrainian military members carry the coffin of late Ukrainian soldier of the Unmanned Systems “Achilles” Regiment Nataliia Ilnytska, who was killed by artillery shelling fighting Russian troops in the Donetsk region, during her funeral ceremony in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on August 18, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP pic
KYIV, Aug 19 — Russia attacked the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk with drones overnight, the city mayor said today, calling it a sign that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want peace.
The reported assault came a day after US President Donald Trump met European leaders and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, saying the US would help guarantee Ukraine’s security in any deal to end Russia’s war there.
After the meeting yesterday, Trump said he telephoned Putin and had begun arranging a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, to be followed by a trilateral summit among the three presidents, with the aim of reaching a peace deal.
“At the very same time when Putin was assuring Trump over the phone that he seeks peace, and when President Volodymyr Zelensky was holding talks at the White House with European leaders about a just peace, Putin’s army launched yet another massive attack on Kremenchuk,” Vitalii Maletskyi, mayor of the city that lies in the Poltava region, said on Telegram.
“Once again, the world has seen that Putin does not want peace — he wants to destroy Ukraine,” he said.
The overnight attack on Ukraine was the largest so far in August, with Russia launching 270 drones and 10 missiles, according to the Ukrainian air force.
Maletskyi said scores of blasts shook the city, targeting energy and transport infrastructure, leaving hundreds of people in the Poltava region without power.
The Ukrainian air force said it downed 230 drones and six missiles but recorded strikes at 16 locations.
Poltava Governor Volodymyr Kohut said that the attack damaged administrative buildings of a local energy infrastructure operation.
“Fortunately, there were no casualties,” Kohut said on Telegram. He said that in the Lubny district nearly 1,500 residential and 119 commercial customers were left without power.
A morning drone attack by Russia on Ukraine’s Chernihiv region also damaged infrastructure with power cuts reported in parts of the northern region, according to Governor Viacheslav Chaus.
There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides have been targeting infrastructure key to the military in their strikes during the war on each other’s territory, including energy infrastructure.
Russia said today that Ukraine’s overnight drone attack sparked fires at an oil refinery and a hospital roof in the Volgograd region. — Reuters
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