London – At least seven people were killed and 27 were injured in Ukraine overnight on Tuesday while Russia continued long -range attacks against several cities, local officials announced.
The Air Force of Ukraine said that he had recorded 112 Russian drones launched in the country during the night, 75 of which were slaughtered or neutralized in flight. The Air Force reported impacts in 11 places across the country.
Most of the reported deaths have been grouped in two regions of northeast of Ukraine, near the front lines.
Three people were killed and 20 were injured by a Russian cluster rocket attack against the city of Sumy, local authorities announced. At least five rockets landed in open areas in the city center, said Sumy Regional Administration, including along a highly frequented road filled with morning cars and shuttle.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an article on social networks that the “wild strike” was a “entirely deliberate attack on civilians”.
Firefighters turn off cars struck by a Russian military strike in Sumy, Ukraine, June 3, 2025.
Ukrai State Emergency Service / Via Reuters
Three other people were killed and six were injured in the Kharkiv region following Russian bombing, the regional military administration said.
One person was killed and 13 injured by Russian fires in the southern Kherson region, said Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the local military administration.
Five people were also injured by strikes in the city in the north of Chernihiv and five others in the city of the southern dark coast of Odesa, the officials said.
In his Tuesday morning message, Zelenskyy said that the current Russian attacks indicate that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have a real interest in peace, despite the Kremlin participation in current talks in the United States to end his 3-year invasion.
Ukrainian and Russian representatives met in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday for a second round of direct negotiations, the two parties gathered in the city for the first round in May. This meeting enabled the first on the face to face between the two parties since spring 2022.
Ukraine requests a full 30-day ceasefire during which peace negotiations can take place. Zelenskyy also declared before Monday’s meeting that kyiv wanted the release of all prisoners and the return of Ukrainian children taken from force to Russia during the invasion of Moscow. Zelenskyy also suggested future direct discussions with Putin.
In a “peace memorandum” delivered to the negotiation team of Ukraine on Monday, Russia has exerted maximalist requests similar to those published during the first days of its invasion of spring 2022.
Among the requests are a Ukrainian withdrawal from the four Ukrainian regions that claim Russia – Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk – including the areas that Russian troops do not occupy. Moscow said that it would accept a ceasefire if Ukraine agreed to stop receiving foreign weapons and put an end to mobilization-two requests kyiv rejected.
Moscow also requires limits of the size of the armed forces of Ukraine, a permanent block on Ukrainian NATO membership, international recognition of Russian control over the areas of Ukraine, he claims, the lifting of sanctions and Ukraine to abandon his request for war repairs to be paid by Moscow.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday that there was no significant breakthrough during Monday talks. “It would be wrong to expect immediate decisions or breakthroughs here,” he said. “But the work is underway.”
A meeting between Putin, Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump “is unlikely in the near future,” continued Peskov.
Dmitry Medvedev – The former Russian President and Prime Minister who was now as vice -president of the country’s Security Council – wrote on Telegram that talks “are not supposed to obtain a compromise for peace according to certain imaginary and unrealistic conditions invented by others, but rather to guarantee our rapid victory and the complete destruction” of the government of Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that it was “obvious: without global pressure-without decisive actions in the United States, Europe and everyone in the world that has power-Putin will not even suit a ceasefire”.
“Not a single day goes by without Russia strikes Ukrainian towns and villages,” continued the president.
“Each day, we lose our inhabitants against Russian terrorism. Every day, Russia gives new reasons for more difficult sanctions and stronger support for our defense. I am grateful to everyone in the world that promotes exactly this program: sanctions for the aggression and murder of people, and help for the defense of Ukrainian life.”
The firefighters work in a terminal of a private postal company the site of a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025.
Ukrai State Emergency Service / Via Reuters
Ukraine continued its own long -range strike campaign in Russia overnight. The Defense Ministry in Moscow said its forces had killed eight Ukrainian drones on Tuesday morning on Tuesday morning.
Monday’s Istanbul talks on Monday took place despite the daring secret operation of Ukraine targeting Russian strategic bombers on Sunday, in which drones hidden at the back of the trucks attacked at least five aerodromes deep in Russian territory.
Zelenskyy told the ABC News World Affairs Correspondent, Martha Raddatz, that the attack was a “strategic operation” which “definitively reduces the potential of Russia and demonstrates that Ukraine works on certain stages”.
“Unless they stop, we will continue,” he said.
When asked if he was satisfied with the involvement of the Trump administration, Zelenskyy told Raddatz: “We are looking for very strong stages from President Trump to support sanctions and to force President Putin to arrest this war, or at least proceed to the first stage of the end of this war-that is to say the fire of sale.”
Will Gretsky, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Patrick Reevell contributed to this report.
