"A Russian drone hit a high-rise residential building in Ukraine's second-largest city, authorities said, injuring at least five people and straining a three-day cease-fire timed for Victory Day celebrations. The attack on the Kharkiv building occurred late on May 9, hours after the conclusion of Russia's annual Red Square parade. The event, which was markedly pared down from previous years, went forward amid veiled threats from Ukraine about disrupting the event and angry open threats from Moscow to retaliate on Kyiv."
"Oleh Synheburov, Kharkiv's regional governor, said five people were wounded in the incident. Ukrainian authorities said more than two dozen Russian drones were spotted over Ukraine overnight. Russia officials, meanwhile, reported nearly 100 Ukrainian drones over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. Aleksandr Khinshtein, the regional governor, said no injuries were reported."
"The cease-fire is formally set to expire on May 11. Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters there were no ongoing discussions to extend the truce. Nor, Ushakov said, were the any plans to resume peace talks, which the United States had been pushing forward. Also speaking to reporters on May 9, President Vladimir Putin said he thought the Ukraine war was coming to an end, and he signaled he wanted to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe."
"The US-brokered peace talks to end the all-out war, now in its fifth year, have faltered in part because of Russia's hard-line demands, which include Ukrainian troops withdrawing from territories in the eastern Donbas region that they still control."
A Russian drone struck a high-rise residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, injuring at least five people. The attack happened late on May 9, hours after Russia’s Red Square parade ended. Ukrainian authorities reported more than two dozen Russian drones over Ukraine overnight. Russia reported nearly 100 Ukrainian drones over the Kursk region, with no injuries reported there. A three-day cease-fire timed for Victory Day was strained by the strike and was set to expire on May 11. Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov said there were no discussions to extend the truce and no plans to resume peace talks. President Vladimir Putin said he expected the war to end and indicated interest in negotiating new European security arrangements. US-brokered peace talks have faltered due to Russia’s demands, including Ukrainian troop withdrawal from parts of eastern Donbas still controlled by Ukraine.
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