Six killed in Russian airstrikes on Ukraine, hours after Trump shelved his bid for talks with Putin

Intense Russian drone and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine have killed at least six people, including two children, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Another 21 people were wounded in another night of attacks, which he said proved that Moscow was not under enough pressure for the ongoing war.

Hours earlier, US President Donald Trump said his plans for an upcoming summit in Budapest with Russian President Vladimir Putin had been postponed because he did not want a “wasted meeting”.

The Kremlin has rejected calls for a ceasefire on the current front lines by both Trump and European leaders.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military said it attacked a Russian chemical plant in the border region of Bryansk late Tuesday with UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.

Calling the strike a “successful strike” that penetrated Russia’s air defense system, military officials said the Bryansk plant “produces gunpowder, explosives and rocket fuel components used in munitions and missiles used by the enemy to shell the territory of Ukraine.”

Zelensky, who was due to visit Swedish defense contractor Saab on Wednesday, returned from talks with Trump last Friday, after failing to convince the US president to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles.

“As soon as the issue of long-range missiles became a little more distant for us, for Ukraine, then almost automatically Russia became less interested in diplomacy,” Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian capital was subjected to a wave of attacks overnight, the first such strikes since September 28.

A couple in their 60s were killed when a drone struck their high-rise building in the city, and four people were killed in the wider Kyiv region. The victims include a woman, a six-month-old baby and a 12-year-old girl.

The capital was under a ballistic missile warning for most of the night and echoed with the sound of explosions. Until the morning, rescue teams were extinguishing fires in residential buildings.

Across Ukraine, Russian attacks again targeted energy infrastructure and forced emergency power outages in several areas.

One Kyiv lawmaker, Inna Sovsun, told the BBC that the airstrikes continued throughout the night and were definitely an attack on electricity: “for the majority like me, it means we have no electricity and no water.”