Russia Hits Kyiv With 21 Missiles as Ukraine Sends 630 Drones Toward Moscow
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Updated · Reuters · Oct 21
Russia Hits Kyiv With 21 Missiles as Ukraine Sends 630 Drones Toward Moscow
3 articles · Updated · Reuters · Oct 21
Summary
21 Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv in three overnight waves, and Zelenskiy said 2 people were killed and 34 injured across a dozen Ukrainian regions.
630 Ukrainian drones were launched toward Moscow, Russia said, with most intercepted far from the capital; two people were wounded near Moscow and one man was killed in Belgorod.
November talks are still being discussed after Steve Witkoff met Putin in St Petersburg, with both Moscow and Kyiv saying US-mediated negotiations could resume next month.
No breakthrough was evident: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said proposals drafted in Oslo did not fully satisfy Russia, and a source said one US scenario involved Ukraine ceding all of Donbas for a NATO security guarantee.
Witkoff's praise of Putin as a "humanitarian" sharpened tensions with Kyiv, underscoring how the 4-1/2-year war is still escalating even as diplomacy restarts.