Large-scale outages in Kyiv due to Russian fresh trikes

KYIV: Ukraine's capital Kyiv suffered 'large-scale power outages' on Saturday because of Russian strikes, the country's largest private energy provider said. 'New large-scale power outages in the capital due to attacks. Stabilisation schedules are currently not in effect,' DTEK, a private energy firm, said in a statement on Telegram.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine were Moscow's 'thanks' for a diesel deal agreed with the United States, deepening his criticism of the agreement. 'Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia,' Zelensky said in a post on X.
US President Donald Trump conveyed his ideas about how to de-escalate the war in Ukraine to Vladimir Putin during a phone call on Friday, the Kremlin said. Putin received the proposals 'with understanding', the Kremlin said, without elaborating on what the proposals were or the Russian president's response. Trump, who took office last January, has long sought to broker an end to the more than four-and-a-half year conflict.
Talks between Russia and Ukraine remain largely deadlocked, with both sides intensifying long-range strikes on each other in recent months. 'The Russian president received with understanding certain proposals from the US side for measures aiming at de-escalation,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday, according to the state TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies. US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami on Friday in a renewed diplomatic push to end the fighting, as Washington seeks to find a way out of the stalemate.
Russian strikes on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including three children, according to regional authorities. Ukrainian national police said Russia had targeted residential neighbourhoods in the city with 'five guided aerial bombs' early on Saturday morning, hitting two residential buildings.
The strikes came a day after Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami in a renewed diplomatic push to end Russia's war in Ukraine. 'The toll from the air strikes on Zaporizhzhia continues to rise. At present, 11 civilians have been killed. Among them are three children,' said Mykhailo Semikin, head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration. He said rescuers were continuing their search for people under the rubble.
A correspondent at the scene saw people being pulled from the rubble by Ukrainian emergency services. 'We saw people under the rubble -- a woman, her husband and a child,' one volunteer rescuer, Daniil Pishkin, said. He added that he saw two people rescued from the wreckage but 'unfortunately there was a little girl who died'.
A resident of one of the buildings that was hit, who identified herself as Iryna, 69, said she just had time to seek refuge in the toilets after receiving an air raid warning. She said her two neighbours were killed. 'They were 75 years old. They were simply thrown out there, onto the street. They didn't make it to the hospital,' she said.
The Zaporizhzhia region, located just a few dozen kilometres from the front line, and its capital by the same name have been the target of frequent strikes. Russia has intensified its strikes on Ukrainian territory in recent months, causing a growing number of civilian casualties. Diplomatic efforts mediated by the United States to end the war more than four years since Russia's attack on Ukraine have so far yielded no results.
US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami in a renewed diplomatic push to end Russia's war in Ukraine, with Washington seeking a way out of the dangerous stalemate. The talks were overshadowed by US President Donald Trump's announcement of a deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to boost diesel supplies, underscoring how the conflict has become entwined with soaring energy prices.
US envoy Steve Witkoff posted to X after the meeting that the 'constructive discussions' tackled 'potential avenues to de-escalate and conclude the war with Russia ahead of winter and advance efforts toward a durable and lasting peace.' Witkoff said the meeting included 'the E3, the European Commission, Ukraine and Nato.' The discussions covered energy resilience, grain exports, security guarantees and 'longer-term arrangements for Ukraine's and Europe's security to prevent future conflict,' Witkoff said. — AFP