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Russian forces have launched a drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, killing at least one person, as officials from Ukraine and the United States sought to rework a plan proposed by Washington to end the war.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Tuesday, Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Service said the overnight attack on Kyiv damaged residential buildings in the Pecherskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cIn Kyiv, as a result of a night attack, two people were killed, six were injured, and 18 people were rescued, including three children,\u201d\u00a0the service said.<\/p>\n Another attack on Brovarsky, Bila Tserkva and Vyshgorod districts, hours later, wounded a 14-year-old child, it added.<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment from Russia.<\/p>\n The attack followed talks between US and Ukrainian representatives in Switzerland\u2019s Geneva to thrash out Washington\u2019s so-called 28-point plan, which Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly address late on Monday, said the talks in Geneva mean the \u201clist of the necessary steps to end the war can become doable\u201d.<\/p>\n But he said there remained \u201csensitive issues\u201d that he will discuss with US President Donald Trump<\/p>\n \u201cAfter Geneva, there are fewer points \u2013 no longer 28 \u2013 and many of the right elements have been taken into account in this framework. There is still work for all of us to do together \u2013 it is very challenging \u2013 to finalise the document, and we must do everything with dignity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine will never be an obstacle to peace \u2013 this is our principle, a shared principle, and millions of Ukrainians are counting on, and deserve, a dignified peace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Trump, too, hinted at new progress.<\/p>\n \u201cIs it really possible that big progress is being made in Peace Talks between Russia and Ukraine??? Don\u2019t believe it until you see it, but something good just may be happening,\u201d the US president wrote earlier on Monday on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n At the White House, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said there were a couple of points of disagreement remaining, but \u201cwe\u2019re confident that we\u2019ll be able to work through those.\u201d<\/p>\n She said Trump wanted a deal as quickly as possible, but there was no meeting currently scheduled between the US president and Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n Trump, who returned to office this year pledging to end the war quickly, has reoriented US policy from staunch support for Kyiv towards accepting some of Russia\u2019s justifications for its 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n US policy towards the war has been inconsistent. Trump\u2019s hastily arranged Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August led to worries that Washington was prepared to accept many Russian demands, but ultimately resulted in more US pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n The latest, 28-point peace proposal again caught many in the US government, Kyiv and Europe off-guard and prompted new concerns that the Trump administration might be willing to push Ukraine to sign a peace deal heavily tilted towards Moscow.<\/p>\n The plan would require Kyiv to cede more territory, accept curbs on its military and bar it from ever joining NATO, conditions Kyiv has long rejected as tantamount to surrender.<\/p>\n It would also do nothing to allay broader European fears of further Russian aggression.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s European allies drew up a counter-proposal which, according to the Reuters news agency, would halt fighting at the present front lines, leaving discussions of territory for later, and include a NATO-style US security guarantee for Ukraine.<\/p>\n A new version of a draft worked on in Geneva has not been published.<\/p>\n An adviser to Zelenskyy who attended the talks in Geneva told The Associated Press news agency they managed to discuss almost all the plan\u2019s points, and one unresolved issue is that of territory, which can only be decided at the head-of-state level.<\/p>\n Oleksandr Bevz also said the US showed \u201cgreat openness and understanding\u201d that security guarantees are the cornerstone of any agreement for Ukraine.<\/p>\n He said the US would continue working on the plan, and then the leaders of Ukraine and the US would meet. After that, the plan would be presented to Russia.<\/p>\n German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking to reporters, welcomed the \u201cinterim result\u201d of the Geneva talks, saying the US proposal \u201chas now been modified in significant parts\u201d, without details.<\/p>\n Merz added that Moscow must now become engaged in the process.<\/p>\n \u201cThe next step must be that Russia must come to the table,\u201d he said in Angola, where he was attending a summit between African and European Union countries. \u201cThis is a laborious process. It will move forward at most in smaller steps this week. I do not expect there to be a breakthrough this week.\u201d<\/p>\n The Kremlin said it had yet to see the revised peace plan.<\/p>\n Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov added there was no plan for US and Russian delegations to meet this week, but the Russian side remained \u201copen for such contacts\u201d.<\/p>\n Yuri Ushakov, Putin\u2019s foreign affairs adviser, said the plan the Kremlin had received before the Geneva talks had many provisions that \u201cseem quite acceptable\u201d to Moscow. But he described European proposals \u201cfloating around\u201d as \u201ccompletely unconstructive\u201d.<\/p>\n Countries supporting Kyiv \u2013 part of the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d \u2013 are meanwhile due to hold a video call on Tuesday following the Geneva talks.<\/p>\n Turkiye also said it hopes to build bridges between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s office said he spoke to Putin by telephone and told him Ankara will contribute to any diplomatic effort to facilitate direct contact between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n Erdogan \u201cstated that Turkiye will continue its efforts for the termination of the Russia-Ukraine war with a fair and lasting peace\u201d, his office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Russian forces have launched a drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, killing at least one person, as officials from Ukraine and the United States sought to rework a plan proposed by Washington to end the war. 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