“I realise that I am violating ethics,” wrote Filatov. “I want as many people as possible to see these photos. Especially politicians and diplomats. Especially abroad.
“These are elderly, terminally ill people. This is a Russian missile.”
Elsewhere in Dnipro, a separate strike killed two people and left 18 others wounded. Another five people were killed in aerial bomb and drone strikes on Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Russia has also struck energy infrastructure in nine regions, affecting water and heating.
The water supply in Kyiv was entirely cut off “due to enemy attacks and damage to the capital’s energy infrastructure”, the main water supplier Kyivvodokanal said. The entire metro network was suspended on Tuesday and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the situation surrounding the city’s power supply was becoming “very difficult”.
As Ukraine was counting its dead, the Kremlin announced it would take part in three-way peace talks with Ukraine brokered by the US in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November.
It will be the first trilateral meeting since February. Since then, Russia and the US have begun engaging more directly, with US President Donald Trump announcing a deal to import Russian diesel.
Speaking to reporters in Berlin on Tuesday, Zelensky said that it was important for Russia to engage seriously in negotiations on a ceasefire and a peaceful settlement, but that he had so far had not seen “any indication” of that being the case.
Several rounds of ceasefire talks late last year yielded no results, and in public declarations Russian officials have generally refused to budge from Moscow’s maximalist demand of effective Ukrainian surrender.
US First Lady Melania Trump Melania Trump, who was credited with brokering a truce last week in the besieged town of Oleshky, is set to host representatives of Russia and Ukraine at the White House on Thursday. However, no details were given in the White House statement of who was due to attend the meeting., external
The UN said last month that civilian casualties in Ukraine had reached a “record level”, as Russian armed forces resumed systematic attacks on energy infrastructure.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Its advances on the front line have since stalled, and attacks on Ukraine have intensified, with Moscow employing large numbers of missiles and drones to strike Ukrainian cities.
At the same time, Ukraine is faces a critical air defense shortage due to stalled Western deliveries of weapons and a lack of American Patriot interceptor missiles.
In Berlin, Zelensky acknowledged that although the front line was stable “the situation in the air was not as positive, particularly when it comes to our air defence capabilities and the protection of our civilian population”.
