Euronews · Feb 14, 2026 · Collected from RSS
In Munich, leaders are discussing a "June deadline" for peace ahead of trilateral talks in Geneva on Tuesday.
By Sertac Aktan with AFP, AP Published on 14/02/2026 - 12:16 GMT+1 Russian forces launched a massive aerial strike and drone attacks across Ukraine, primarily using 112 kamikaze drones like the Shahed, Gerbera, and Iskander-M ballistic missiles, between Friday evening and Saturday morning, according to Ukraine's air force. It is reported that 91 of 112 drones were downed, and at least 18 of them hit 11 locations. As a result, in Odesa, one woman in a residential fire was killed, in Zaporizhzhia, one was killed, three were wounded, and in Sumy, a 44-year-old woman was killed, three were injured, and in Kherson, two were killed, one of them a 52-year-old man, and four were wounded, according to agencies and Ukrainian media. Also, in Kyiv Oblast, a man and a woman were hospitalised with injuries, and in Kharkiv Oblast, a Russian drone strike on the village of Fesky injured a 22-year-old man, regional governors reported. "The fire was quickly extinguished by rescue workers. Unfortunately, a woman was killed in the attack," posting on Telegram, the governor of the southern Ukrainian region, Oleg Kiper, said on Saturday morning. "Over the last 24 hours, the invaders carried out 655 strikes on 41 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region," the regional military chief, Ivan Fedorov, said. Ukraine strikes back Meanwhile, Russian regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed that a Ukrainian missile strike killed two people and wounded five in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Friday. And the same day, a Russian ammunition depot was struck near the settlement of Novoekonomichne in Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Right before the security conference The strikes coincide with the Munich Security Conference, where German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are discussing military aid and the "June deadline" for a peace deal, a deadline reportedly set by the Trump administration that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has publicly acknowledged. Zelensky, who has been in Munich since Friday and has been meeting with multiple allies, is expected to address the meeting on Saturday. No Russian officials have been invited to this year's summit, which marks a continuation of the exclusion policy following the 2022 invasion. On the other hand, trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the US are confirmed for Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.