Russian drone kills 9 in Marhanets, attacks target Ukraine's civilian infrastructure, officials say

Reuters - 08:17
A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets early on Wednesday, killing nine people in a wave of attacks that targeted civilian infrastructure in east, south and central Ukraine, officials said.
  • Drone hits bus in Marhanets, killing at least 10
  • Attacks target civilian infrastructure in Poltava, Kharkiv, Ukraine says
  • U.S., Ukrainian, European officials meet for peace talks
April 23 (Reuters) - A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets early on Wednesday, killing nine people in a wave of attacks that targeted civilian infrastructure in east, south and central Ukraine, officials said.
The full scale of the attacks, which kept Kyiv and the eastern half of Ukraine awake for several hours overnight, was not immediately known.

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The strikes came as both Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy have signalled that they would be willing to negotiate a pact that would ban striking civilian infrastructure.
If bilateral talks occur, it would be the first time the two sides had held direct negotiations since the early days of the war, which Russia began with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
European and U.S. officials will meet with a Ukrainian delegation on Wednesday in London for further peace talks, following their Paris meeting last week. At the meeting, Washington is expecting Ukraine's answer to a peace ...
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