Russian attacks kill 3 in Kyiv as Ukrainian delegation travels to U.S. amid peace push

Russian drone and missile attacks in and around Ukraine’s capital, kyiv, killed at least three people early Saturday, officials said, as the country’s representatives traveled to the United States to work on a new initiative to end the war.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, will meet with Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday, a senior U.S. official told CBS News.

An American delegation is then expected to travel to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the second half of next week. The Kiev city military administration said two people were killed in strikes on the capital, one woman died and eight were injured in a combined missile and drone attack on the wider Kyiv region, according to regional police.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 29 people were injured in kyiv, noting that debris from intercepted Russian drones hit residential buildings. He also said that the western part of Kyiv had lost power.

US President Donald Trump last week published a plan to end a nearly four-year war. The 28-point proposal Russia strongly favoredwhich prompted Zelensky to quickly engage in dialogue with American negotiators. European leaders, fearing for their own future in the face of Russian aggression, rushed to steer negotiations toward addressing their concerns.

Trump said Tuesday that his plan to end the war had been “refined” and that he was sending envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia to meet with Putin and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with Ukrainian officials. He suggested he might eventually meet with Putin and Zelensky, but not until further progress is made in the negotiations.

Zelensky announced on Friday resignation of his powerful chief of staffAndrii Yermak, who was also the country’s main negotiator in negotiations with the United States, after anti-corruption investigators raided Yermak’s residence. The unprecedented search within the Ukrainian government was a blow to the Ukrainian leader, risking disrupting his negotiating strategy at a time when kyiv is under intense US pressure to sign a peace deal.

In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk shut down operations Saturday after an unmanned boat strike damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, which owns the terminal.

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Combating Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirmed that Ukraine carried out the attack.

“Ukrainian special forces worked on the Russian Federation, its energy sector and infrastructure. In particular, naval drones managed to destroy one of the three tanker berths of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in the Novorossiysk region,” he wrote on Telegram.

Months of long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and terminals have aimed to deprive Moscow of its oil export revenues. we must continue the war.

Meanwhile, Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia is trying to paralyze the Ukrainian electricity network and depriving civilians of access to heat, electricity and running water for a fourth consecutive winter, in what Ukrainian officials call “weaponizing” the bitter cold. An official with Ukraine’s SBU security service, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of their operations, said Ukraine used domestically produced Sea Baby naval drones to strike two oil tankers in the Black Sea, considered part of Russia’s sanctions-evading “ghost fleet.”

The tankers Kairos and Virat were struck in quick succession late Friday afternoon, triggering rescue operations. The crew members on board both vessels are said to be safe.

The SBU official sent a video of the alleged attack, purporting to show the destruction of two oil tankers at sea.

“The SBU continues to take active steps to reduce Russia’s financial capabilities to wage war against Ukraine. Sea Baby naval drones have neutralized ships that could carry oil worth nearly $70 million and helped the Kremlin circumvent international sanctions,” the official told The Associated Press.