Punjabi: Russia and Ukraine War Like Situation

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Zelensky says peace deal is 90% ready in New Year address​

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said a peace agreement to end the war with Russia is "90% ready," in a New Year address that largely focused on resistance to Moscow's full-scale invasion.
Zelensky said the remaining 10% of the agreement to end nearly four years of conflict would "determine the fate of peace, the fate of Ukraine, and the fate of Europe."
In his own New Year speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his troops that "we believe in you and our victory."
Earlier on Wednesday, Moscow also released what it said was evidence of Ukraine using drones to target Putin's private home on Lake Valdai in northwest Russia, allegations Kyiv has strenuously denied.

It included a map allegedly showing that the drones were launched from the Sumy and Chernihiv regions of Ukraine and a video of a downed drone lying in snowy woodland. A serviceman standing next to the wreckage claims it is a Ukrainian Chaklun drone.
Kaja Kallas, the EU's top diplomat, on Wednesday described the Russian claims as a "deliberate distraction" and an attempt to derail the peace process.

 

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Russia hits Ukraine with drones, missiles, killing at least 10 in Kharkiv​

By Vitalii, Hnidyi and Olena Harmash
March 7, 202612:26 PM GMT+5:30Updated March 9, 2026

• Summary

• Zelenskiy urges continued support for Ukraine's air defence
• Kharkiv hit by ballistic missile, killing 10, including children
• Russian attacks damage energy, railway, and port infrastructure

KHARKIV, Ukraine, March 7 (Reuters) - Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight on Saturday, damaging infrastructure and killing ‌at least 10 people, including two children, in the northeast city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia targeted the energy sector and railway infrastructure across the country.
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"There should be a response from partners to these savage strikes against life," Zelenskiy said on the Telegram app.
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"Russia has not abandoned its attempts to destroy Ukraine's residential and critical infrastructure, and therefore support should continue," Zelenskiy said, urging partners to continue air defence and weapons supplies.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and regional ⁠prosecutors put the death toll in the city at 11, one more than Zelenskiy's estimate.
Zelenskiy, speaking later in his nightly video address, described the strike as "horrific." He said rescue crews, including specialists from other regions, were still clearing rubble and searching for bodies underneath.
Kharkiv regional prosecutors reported that two people had been killed in a separate drone strike on Saturday near a post office in a village near the Russian border.
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Ukrainian air defence units shot down 453 drones and 19 missiles, the air force said. But nine missiles and 26 attack drones hit 22 sites, it said.

BALLISTIC MISSILE SLAMS INTO RESIDENTIAL BUILDING​

Item 1 of 5 Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2026. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy
[1/5]Rescuers work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 7, 2026. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

The city of Kharkiv was targeted by Russian drones and missiles, and 11 people, including two children, were killed after a Russian ballistic missile slammed into a five-storey residential building, Terekhov ‌said.
"When ⁠we arrived here 20 minutes after the explosion, I thought I was going to have a stroke. I couldn't string two words together, and my legs were buckling," Hanna, a resident of the destroyed building, told Reuters.
"It's good that I wasn't there with my child and that my father was with me. It was ordinary people who lived there. What were they targeting?"
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces carried out massive overnight strikes ⁠on Ukrainian military-industrial complexes, military airfields and energy facilities, the Interfax news agency reported.

In Kharkiv, 15 people were also wounded, and 19 residential buildings were damaged by the Russian attacks, Kharkiv Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
Commercial and administrative buildings, electricity distribution lines, and cars were also hit, he said.
In ⁠Kyiv, three people were injured, and the heating was knocked out in 2,806 residential apartment buildings in four districts across the capital after Russian strikes hit an energy infrastructure facility, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.

National grid operator Ukrenergo said emergency power cuts were introduced ⁠in seven regions following the Russian attacks.
Ukrainian officials said that Russia also attacked four railway stations and other railway infrastructure in central Ukraine and port infrastructure in the southern Odesa region, setting on fire containers with vegetable oil and damaging a grain warehouse.
Reporting by Olena Harmash in Kyiv and Vitalii Hnidyi in Kharkiv. Editing by Tomasz Janowski, Mark Potter,