Russia Launches Fresh Attacks on Ukraine as Peace Talks Continue

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Russian drones have hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, even as US President Donald Trump pushes for peace in the nearly four-year-long war.

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00:00Firefighters in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia rushed to put out a cluster of blazes caused

00:12by Russian drone attacks Tuesday night.

00:16The strikes injured several people and damaged apartment blocks, private homes and other

00:24buildings.

00:25As Zaporizhia's Russian installed governor says, Kiev launched its own attack, cutting

00:29power to tens of thousands.

00:31Talks of peace in distant cities like Geneva aren't making a difference either way in Ukraine

00:36as attacks continue.

00:42But in Washington, US President Donald Trump remains optimistic a peace plan he's put forth

00:47will make a difference, in time.

00:50Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, Trump gave his update on how the talks are

00:54going.

00:55Not easy, but I don't know, I think we're going to get there.

00:5825,000 soldiers, Ukraine, Russia, in the last month, 25,000 soldiers have died.

01:06So I think we're getting very close to a deal, we'll find out.

01:09He says he's sending US Envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow to meet with Russia's President Putin,

01:14and he's also deploying Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians.

01:19Trump's initial plan had been favorable to Moscow, but it's been revised to reflect Ukrainian concerns.

01:25Trump says only a few points of disagreement are left.

01:29Ukraine and its European allies aren't quite so sure.

01:32Even before the attack on Zaporizhia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told allies in

01:37a video call that talks about peace have yet to bring actual peace.

01:41But we must also not lose sight of reality.

01:45Russia's war against us is not in the past, it's happening every single day, every day

01:51Russia takes Ukrainian lives.

01:53French President Emmanuel Macron, one of those on the video call, also showed doubts about

01:58a fast end to negotiations.

02:00There is clearly no Russian willingness to agree to a ceasefire today.

02:07And the remarks made by the Russian Foreign Minister in the past few hours after the Geneva

02:11talks showed this.

02:13He said there was no willingness to discuss the so-called amended plan that emerged from

02:17the Geneva discussions.

02:19Russia wants Ukraine to cede land and pledge to stay out of NATO.

02:23It says it doesn't know what's in the now-revised peace plan, and it's warned that if there

02:27have been major changes, it might not be so willing to accept it.

02:32One Ukrainian negotiator says the changes to the peace plan include items that Ukraine wanted,

02:37but he says without a final version, it's still very much wait-and-see.

02:41There are some things going on in the media, but I will tell you, I see that there are a

02:45lot of misinterpretations going on today already, yesterday.

02:50So I would be very careful with assessments like someone accepts everything, like Ukraine,

02:55or someone says it's no-go, a non-starter, whatever.

02:59I would abstain making these straightforward comments.

03:03So, for Ukrainians, a nearly four-year-old war grinds on, killing and destroying with

03:14no end yet in sight.

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