US army secretary Dan Driscoll met Russian officials for several hours in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, striking residential buildings and energy infrastructure.

A residential building in the central Pechersk district and another in Kyiv’s eastern district of Dniprovskyi were badly damaged, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Video footage posted to Telegram showed a large fire spread through multiple floors of the nine-storey building in Dniprovskyi. At least four people were injured, said Tymor Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv city administration.

Ukraine’s energy ministry said infrastructure had been hit, without specifying what type or the extent of the damage.

Russian air defences destroyed 249 Ukrainian drones overnight a

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