00:00Seven people were killed across Ukraine in fresh Russian attacks overnight into Thursday,
00:06just hours after US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Vladimir Putin in
00:11St. Petersburg. Speaking 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. The Russian barrage
00:23targeted many cities, including Sumy and Kharkiv in the northeast, Zaporizhia in the southeast,
00:29and Donetsk in the eastern industrial Donbass region. Officials in Kyiv also noted that the
00:35capital had come under shelling in the early hours of Thursday, where 15 people were injured
00:39in attacks on residential areas and civil infrastructure. Russia said two people were
00:45injured in Moscow, which was the target of what officials described as a huge barrage.
00:50Local officials said over 630 drones were fired into Russia, with some 163 bound for the capital.
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