At least three people, including a child, killed in missile and drone barrage across Ukraine, officials say.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Russia has hit regions across Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least three people and triggering emergency power outages as United States-led talks to end the nearly four-year conflict dragged on.<\/p>\n In a social media post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a four-year-old in the Zhytomyr region was among those killed during the Russian attacks that took place \u201cin the midst of negotiations aimed at ending this war\u201d.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cThis Russian strike sends an extremely clear signal about Russia\u2019s priorities,\u201d he said, urging Ukraine\u2019s Western partners to increase pressure on Moscow.<\/p>\n A woman in the Kyiv region and another person in the Khmelnytskyi region were also killed, Zelenskyy added.<\/p>\n There was no immediate comment by Russia, which denies targeting civilians since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n Ukraine\u2019s power operator Ukrenergo said on Tuesday that the \u201cmassive missile and drone attack\u201d had caused fires in several regions, leading it to impose \u201cemergency power outages\u201d across the country, where winter temperatures are currently dipping towards freezing.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said energy infrastructure in Ukraine\u2019s western regions suffered the most damage in the overnight attacks, which included dozens of missiles and more than 600 drones.<\/p>\n The country\u2019s air force reported that air raid alerts covered nearly all of Ukraine as of 06:20 GMT, as Russia intensifies its attacks during winter to disrupt electricity and heating and to strain logistics and the economy.<\/p>\n In the capital, Kyiv, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said debris fell near a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district, damaging windows. In the Black Sea city of Odesa, Russian strikes sparked fires but did not result in injuries, according to emergency services.<\/p>\n As a result of Tuesday\u2019s attacks, NATO member Poland said Polish and allied aircraft were deployed to protect its airspace after Russian strikes hit areas of western Ukraine near its border.<\/p>\n \u201cThese measures are preventive in nature and are aimed at securing and protecting the airspace,\u201d Poland\u2019s operational command said in a statement.<\/p>\n Poland scrambles jets during major Russian missile-and-drone barrages on western Ukraine, when strikes are deemed to pose a heightened risk near its border.<\/p>\n The latest strikes followed two-track negotiations in the US city of Miami, with US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meeting Ukrainian and Russian delegations separately.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy said on Monday that revised drafts of US ceasefire proposals looked \u201cquite solid at this stage\u201d. \u201cThere are some things we are probably not ready for, and I\u2019m sure there are things the Russians are not ready for either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He claimed \u201cnearly 90 percent\u201d of Ukraine\u2019s demands had been incorporated into the draft agreements, alluding to a 20-point plan.<\/p>\n However, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov was quoted by state media as saying there had been \u201cslow progress\u201d.<\/p>\n Witkoff hailed \u201cproductive and constructive\u201d discussions with both sides, but there were no signs of a breakthrough.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Ukraine has continued its campaign to disrupt the Russian war effort and sow fear behind the front line, where outnumbered Ukrainian troops are straining to hold back\u00a0Russia\u2019s bigger army.<\/p>\n On Monday, Ukrainian officials said the country\u2019s forces had hit an oil terminal, a pipeline, two parked jets and two ships in a series of strikes on Russian soil.<\/p>\n That day, a car bomb killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow. Russian investigators said they suspected the attack was \u201clinked\u201d to \u201cUkrainian special forces\u201d. Ukraine has not commented on the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At least three people, including a child, killed in missile and drone barrage across Ukraine, officials say. Russia has hit regions across Ukraine with missiles and drones, killing at least three people and triggering emergency power outages as United States-led talks to end the nearly four-year conflict dragged on. 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