{"id":336203,"date":"2025-08-11T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336203\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:50:11","slug":"ukrainian-drone-strike-kills-1-in-russia-ahead-of-the-trump-putin-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336203\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone strike kills 1 in Russia ahead of the Trump-Putin summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A Ukrainian<\/a> drone attack killed one person and wounded two others in a region some 260 miles (418 kilometers) east of Moscow, a Russian official said Monday, as fighting continued ahead of Friday\u2019s Russia-U.S. summit<\/a> in which President Vladimir Putin seeks a peace deal to lock in Moscow\u2019s gains.<\/p>\n

Nizhny Novgorod region Gov. Gleb Nikitin said in a statement that drones targeted two \u201cindustrial zones\u201d and caused the casualties and unspecified damage.<\/p>\n

A Ukrainian official said at least four drones launched by the security services, or SBU, struck a plant in Arzamas city that produced components for Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operations, said the Plandin plant produces gyroscopic devices, control systems and on-board computers for the missiles and is an \u201cabsolutely legitimate target\u201d because it is part of the Russian military-industrial complex that works for the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a total of 39 Ukrainian drones overnight and Monday morning over several Russian regions as well as over the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s summit, which U.S. President Donald Trump will host in Alaska, sees Putin unwavering on his demands<\/a> to keep all the Ukrainian territory his forces now occupy and to prevent Kyiv from joining NATO, with the long-term aim of keeping Ukraine under Moscow\u2019s sphere of influence.<\/p>\n

Putin believes he has the advantage on the ground as Ukrainian forces struggle to hold back Russian advances along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. On the front lines, few Ukrainian soldiers believe there\u2019s an end in sight to the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insists he will never consent to any Russian annexation of Ukrainian territory nor give up his country\u2019s bid for NATO membership. European leaders have rallied behind Ukraine<\/a>, saying peace can\u2019t be resolved without Kyiv.<\/p>\n

With Europeans and Ukrainians so far not invited to the summit, Germany sought to prepare by inviting Trump, Zelenskyy, the NATO chief and several other European leaders for a virtual meeting on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

The German chancellery said the talks would seek additional ways to pressure Russia and prepare for peace negotiations and \u201crelated issues of territorial claims and security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steffen Meyer, spokesperson for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, said earlier Monday that the German government \u201chas always emphasized that borders must not be shifted by force\u201d and that Ukraine should decide its own fate \u201cindependently and autonomously..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded two others in a region…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2595,2000,299,1945,4179,103006,8617,2301,56247,285,332,7659,7661,120299,657,7662,333,2601,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-336203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-drones","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-gleb-nikitin","15":"tag-military-and-defense","16":"tag-moscow","17":"tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-russia-government","21":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","22":"tag-steffen-meyer","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-ukraine-government","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011166423426309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}