Zelensky says around 15 countries are expected to attend the talks, along with representatives from the European Union and NATO, and a US delegation joining the meeting via video link. It comes ahead of leaders from the so-called coalition of the willing meeting in France on 6 January. <\/p>\n
Kharkiv officials say the bodies of a woman and a three-year-old child were found in the rubble, with preliminary information suggesting the pair could have been a mother and son. <\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, this is how the Russians treat life and people \u2013 they continue killing, despite all efforts by the world, and especially by the United States, in the diplomatic process,” Zelensky wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Of the 28 injured, which included a six-month-old baby, 16 have been taken to hospital. <\/p>\n
A search and rescue operation is ongoing with more than 80 volunteers working at the scene, according to an update from Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov.<\/p>\n
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation neither planned nor launched attacks using missile weapons or aircraft weapons within the city of Kharkiv,” the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement to Telegram.<\/p>\n
It added that video footage from before the attack showed “heavy smoke of unknown origin”, which it cited as evidence of ammunition detonated by Ukrainian armed forces.<\/p>\n
The ministry also alleged that the reports were seeking to distract world attention from a New Year’s Eve strike on a hotel in a Russian-held part of Kherson region in southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelensky says around 15 countries are expected to attend the talks, along with representatives from the European Union…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-670667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115829936206065308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670667","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=670667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}