Twelve people were wounded after a Russian drone hit Ukraine’s SBU headquarters in central Kyiv, with Zelenskyy saying it deliberately targeted acting chief Oleksandr Poklad’s office.
The strike came just before expected U.S. diplomacy: Trump said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will go to Moscow and then Kyiv carrying a proposal to end the war.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine would pause airstrikes during the talks and urged Russia to reciprocate, while Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the attack a major escalation showing Moscow’s rejection of diplomacy.
Russia’s wider overnight barrage killed one person in Odesa, two police officers in Dnipro and wounded three more in Kyiv, underscoring an intensifying air war as the front remains largely deadlocked.
Ukraine also struck back inside Russia, with officials reporting a large drone attack that set an oil depot ablaze near Sochi amid mounting pressure on Russian infrastructure.