 "Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire at the site of a Russian drone strike in the city of Chuguiv, Kharkiv region, early on November 7, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP file image")
Russia on Saturday launched an overnight strike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, killing one person and injuring 23 others. The attack came just a day after the US, Russia and Ukraine held a delegation-level bilateral talks in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
The country was under an air raid alert, with military authorities in Kyiv warning of drones and ballistic missiles.
“Kyiv is under a massive enemy attack. Do not leave shelters!” Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on Telegram, adding that several non-residential buildings had been hit.
“Currently, one person is known to have died and four to have been wounded,” he wrote in a separate post, adding that three of the injured had been hospitalised.
In Kharkiv, Mayor Igor Terekhov reported an attack by Iranian-made Shahed drones had damaged several residential buildings near the Russian border.
Trilateral talks
In a diplomatic breakthrough, senior delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the United States h ave met in the United Arab Emirates for their first trilateral talks since the full-scale war began in February 2022, even as Moscow reiterated it would not drop its demand that Kyiv withdraw from the eastern Donbas region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said territory remained the key issue and would be on the agenda for the talks.
They are the first direct public negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv on a plan being pushed by US President Donald Trump to end the almost four-year-long war.
“The talks commenced today in Abu Dhabi and are scheduled to continue over two days, as part of ongoing efforts to promote dialogue and identify political solutions to the crisis,” the UAE foreign ministry said in a statement.
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In his evening address to the nation , Zelenskyy said, “The key is that Russia must be ready to end the war it started.”
President Putin’s demand that Ukraine surrender the remaining 20 percent of the Donetsk region in the Donbas – about 5,000sq km (1,900sq miles) still under Kyiv’s control – has emerged as a major obstacle to any breakthrough agreement.
Both Moscow and Kyiv said military intelligence officials would attend the talks. US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to mediate.