Russia destroyed Ukraine’s military electrical substation on Wednesday as Ukraine claimed successful strikes on key targets within Russia.
Russian military forces struck a power substation that supplied power for Ukraine’s military-industrial complex, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
The Russian Armed Forces also destroyed the production facilities of Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises, storage and launch sites for long-range drones, as well as temporary deployment sites for Ukrainian troops. Russian troops are about to take control of a settlement in the northern Donetsk region, said the ministry.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed successful strikes on several key targets within Russia, including an oil refinery in Bashkortostan, oil pumping stations in Volgograd region, and a UAV production facility in Belgorod region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Ukraine and Western countries have proposed a bilateral meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents. He said the meeting place could be in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, European neutral countries or “somewhere like Kazakhstan”.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin remains ready to meet with Vladimir Zelensky, but a meeting without any preparations is rather a PR stunt that is most likely doomed to failure, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at an interview on Wednesday.
He said Ukraine showed no interest in Russia’s proposal to establish a working group to advance negotiations for the possible summit.
In his meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia is willing to adhere to the route agreed upon by the two presidents of Russia and the U.S. during their meeting in Alaska, but the roadmap proposed by Ukraine and some European countries aimed at prolonging the conflict is unacceptable.
The two officials both expressed the willingness to seek a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict at the meeting.
