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Ukraine war today: Couple killed as Russia hammers Kyiv with missile attacks

Carriages burn following deadly Russian drone attack on Ukraine passenger train
  • Russia pounded cities across Ukraine with drones and a missile overnight, killing a couple near Kyiv – local media reported that the woman had a four-year-old daughter who survived the strike. Officials said four people, including two children, sought medical attention after the attack.
  • Russian drones damaged port infrastructure in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, on the Black Sea coast, the regional governor said on Wednesday – Three people were hurt in the attack, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
  • A Russian drone strike killed five people aboard a passenger train in northeastern Ukraine, prosecutors confirmed, an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned as an act of terrorism.
  • Trilateral negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States to reach a resolution on the war in Ukraine are set to resume in Abu Dhabi on February 1, Russia's Interfax news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Wednesday.
  • Europe must "very rapidly" build independence in defence, Andrius Kubilius, the European Union’s defence commissioner, said on Wednesday.
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