KYIV \u2013 Drone strikes killed one person in Ukraine and another in Russia, officials said Saturday, ahead of fresh talks next week aimed at ending the war.<\/p>\n
An elderly woman died when a Russian drone hit a residential building in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, Ukraine\u2019s State Emergency Service said. <\/p>\n
In Russia, a civilian was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a car in the border region of Bryansk, regional Gov. Alexander Bogomaz said.<\/p>\n
The attacks came a day after a Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian border city of Belgorod killed two people and wounded five, according to regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, another round of U.S.-brokered talks<\/a> between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next week in Geneva, days ahead of the fourth anniversary of the all-out Russian invasion of its neighbor<\/a>, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said on Friday.<\/p>\n The discussions will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s communications adviser, Dmytro Lytvyn, confirmed the new round of negotiations.<\/p>\n The talks take place against a backdrop of continued fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line<\/a>, relentless Russian bombardment of civilian areas<\/a> of Ukraine and the country\u2019s power grid<\/a>, and Kyiv\u2019s almost daily long-range drone attacks<\/a> on war-related assets on Russian soil.<\/p>\n Previous U.S.-led efforts to find consensus on ending the war, most recently two rounds of talks in Abu Dhabi<\/a>, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, have failed to resolve difficult issues, such as the future of Ukraine\u2019s Donbas industrial heartland that is largely occupied by Russian forces. <\/p>\n Zelenskyy said last week that the United States has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline<\/a> to reach a deal. Previous deadlines given by U.S. President Donald Trump have passed largely without consequence.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n