Ukraine War Latest: Drones Strike Russia, 20,000 Without Power; Lavrov ‘Ready’ to Meet US’s Rubio
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he is “ready” for a face-to-face meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after a cancelled summit blamed on Lavrov’s uncompromising stance. Speculation rises about a rift between Lavrov and President Putin, as Lavrov was left out of recent top-level meetings. Ukrainian drone attacks over the weekend left more than 20,000 people without power in Russia’s Belgorod, Taganrog, and Voronezh regions, sparking fires and outages. Ukrainian strikes targeted infrastructure including a thermal power plant as part of efforts to disrupt Moscow’s energy revenue. In Ukraine, heavy Russian aerial assaults included 458 drones and 45 missiles, killing at least seven people and causing widespread emergency blackouts in cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian energy plants reported the largest attack since the war began. Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited Mykolaiv and Kherson, sharing on Instagram about the […]
