A Russian attack on Ukraine has killed six people and wounded dozens of others, officials said, while emergency crews restored power to more than 400,000 households in Kyiv after strikes on the grid, as the US attempts to broker peace talks.
“While everyone is discussing points of peace plans, Russia continues to pursue its ‘war plan’ of two points: to kill and destroy,” Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha wrote on X on Saturday.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched about 36 missiles and nearly 600 drones in the attack.
The Kyiv City Military Administration said two people were killed in the strikes on the capital, Kyiv.
Regional officials and police said one person had died in the region surrounding the capital, two in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, and one in a midday attack in the Kherson region in the south.
Vehicles burn after being damaged during a Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, November 29, 2025 [Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said 29 people were wounded in the city, noting that falling debris from intercepted Russian drones hit residential buildings. He also said that the western part of Kyiv had lost power.
“The world should know that Russia is targeting entire families,” Kyiv’s military administration head, Tymur Tkachenko, said.
Following the attack, the European Union’s ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, cast doubt on Russia’s stated interest in a peace deal.
“While the world discusses a possible peace deal. Moscow answers with missiles, not diplomacy,” Mathernova said in a post on X.
Ukraine team heads to US
On the diplomatic front, Zelenskyy said that his negotiators had left for the United States to seek a “dignified peace” and a rapid end to the war, started by Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
Zelenskyy is under growing pressure from Washington to agree to a US proposal to end the war, which critics say heavily favours Moscow.
At Kyiv’s insistence, US President Donald Trump’s initial 28-point plan to end the war was revised during talks in Geneva with European and US officials. However, many contentious issues remain unresolved.
The Ukrainian team is being led by former defence chief Rustem Umerov, following the resignation on Friday of Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, amid a corruption probe.
“The task is clear: to swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war,” Zelenskyy posted on X.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and head of the Ukrainian delegation Rustem Umerov, together with the team, is already on the way to the United States. Rustem delivered a report today, and the task is clear: to swiftly and substantively work out…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 29, 2025
“Ukraine continues to work with the United States in the most constructive way possible, and we expect that the results of the meetings in Geneva will now be hammered out in the United States,” the Ukrainian president added.
According to media reports citing US officials, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will meet the Ukrainian delegation on Sunday in Florida.
Black Sea attacks
Separately on Saturday, an official from Ukraine’s SBU security service said that Ukraine had hit two tankers, used by Russia to export oil while skirting Western sanctions, with marine drones in the Black Sea.
The joint operation to hit the so-called “shadow fleet” vessels was run by the SBU and Ukraine’s navy, the official told the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity.
Turkish authorities have said that blasts rocked two shadow fleet tankers near Turkiye’s Bosphorus Strait on Friday, causing fires on the vessels, and rescue operations were launched for those on board.
This video grab taken from images released by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shows smoke rising from a cargo ship on fire in the Black Sea off the Turkish coast [AFP]
The SBU official said that both tankers, identified as the Kairos and Virat, were empty and on their way to the port of Novorossiysk, a major Russian oil terminal.
“Video [footage] shows that after being hit, both tankers sustained critical damage and were effectively taken out of service. This will deal a significant blow to Russian oil transportation,” the official said. They did not say when the strikes took place.
Ukraine has consistently called for tougher international measures on Russia’s “shadow fleet”, which Kyiv says is helping Moscow export vast quantities of oil to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine, despite Western sanctions.