Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy signs agreement with Azerbaijan as death toll from Russian attacks rises to 10
The Guardian • • world
Key Points:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed security and energy cooperation deals with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, focusing on military-industrial cooperation and leveraging Ukraine's airspace defense experience against Russia.
- Zelenskyy proposed hosting a new round of peace talks with Russia in Azerbaijan, contingent on Russia's willingness to engage in diplomacy, as US mediation efforts have shifted focus to Iran.
- Russian attacks killed ten people in southeastern Ukraine's city of Dnipro and other regions, with repeated missile and drone strikes targeting residential areas, according to local officials.
- A Ukrainian drone attack on Russian-annexed Crimea's Sevastopol resulted in one death and three injuries, with 43 drones reportedly shot down during the assault.
- A Russian drone crashed in Romania near the Ukraine border, causing material damage and prompting evacuation of over 200 people; this marks the first incident of drone debris causing damage on Romanian territory since the conflict began.
