An injured woman sits with her dog near a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike.<\/span> <\/div>\nEvgeniy Maloletka\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Klymenko said eight regions of the country were targeted in what he called \u201ca massive combined Russian attack\u201d that hit Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia. <\/p>\n
The attacks hit after Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky became involved in a new public spat, specifically over the future of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. <\/p>\n
Any move to recognize Russia\u2019s control of Crimea would reverse a decade of US policy and could upset the widely held post-World War Two consensus that international borders should not be changed by force. <\/p>\n
Zelensky has repeatedly said Ukraine would not accept that, saying it would go against the country\u2019s constitution. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Trump said Zelensky\u2019s position was \u201cvery harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy\u2019s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about!\u201d he posted on Truth Social. <\/p>\n
Trump made the comments hours after Vice President JD Vance threatened to abandon negotiations, telling reporters during a visit to India that a \u201cvery explicit proposal\u201d had been put to both Russia and Ukraine and that it was \u201ctime for them to either say yes or for the US to walk away.\u201d <\/p>\n
Earlier, talks between Ukraine, the US, Britain, France and Germany aimed at furthering work towards a ceasefire were downgraded to take place among officials, after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio withdrew. <\/p>\n
\u201cEmotions have run high today,\u201d Zelensky said on X Wednesday as the day\u2019s developments threw fresh uncertainty over the diplomatic efforts to end the war. <\/p>\n
The Trump administration\u2019s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to visit Moscow on Friday for discussions with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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