00:00Seven people were killed across Ukraine in fresh Russian attacks overnight into Thursday,
00:06just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
00:13Speaking after the meeting, Trump, in a bid to strike an optimistic tone,
00:18said that this is the closest negotiators have gotten to ending the war.
00:22The Russian barrage targeted many cities, including Sumy and Kharkiv in the northeast,
00:27Zaporizhia in the southeast, and Donetsk in the eastern industrial Donbass region.
00:33Officials in Kiev also noted that the capital had come under shelling in the early hours of Thursday,
00:38where 15 people were injured in attacks on residential areas and civil infrastructure.
00:43Russia said two people were injured in Moscow,
00:46which was the target of what officials described as a huge barrage.
00:50Local officials said over 630 drones were fired into Russia,
00:54with some 163 bound for the capital.
