At peace talks, Russia has demanded Ukraine cede even more land and give up Western military support as a precondition to peace — terms Kyiv says are unacceptable.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Russia’s offensive, which has forced millions from their homes and devastated much of eastern Ukraine.

“Russian troops targeted critical and social infrastructure and residential areas in the region,” Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram early on Saturday.

Separately, authorities in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region said one person was killed and three others were wounded in Russian strikes over the past day.

The overnight strike wounded 14 people, Kiper added, “three of them children.”

“Rescuers pulled the bodies of two people from the rubble who died as a result of a hostile drone strike on a residential building,” Odesa Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.

Moscow has stepped up drone and missile attacks on Ukraine as peace talks initiated by the United States to end the three-year war have stalled.

A Russian drone strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa killed two people and wounded 14, including children, local authorities said on Saturday.

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