Kyiv and Moscow exchanged drone attacks a day before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to arrive in the United States for talks with President Donald Trump aimed at ending the three-year war with Russia, AFP reported.

Fighting continues as diplomatic efforts attempt to bring an end to Moscow’s invasion.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia attacked the country with 60 Iranian “Shahed” drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as an “Iskander” missile.

The governor of the besieged eastern Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, stated that the Russian attacks killed five people in the area.

In Russia, the Ministry of Defense reported that Kyiv launched 46 drones, mainly over border regions but also over Nizhny Novgorod, hundreds of kilometers east of Ukraine.

Acting governor of the border Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said that a Ukrainian drone attack killed a man in his car.

Governor of the southern Voronezh region, Alexander Gusev, added that a railway worker was injured by a drone in the region.

Ukraine has been using drones against Russia throughout Moscow’s large-scale offensive, which has caused thousands of deaths and forced millions of people to flee their homes.

Zelensky is expected in Washington three days after Trump hosted Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks.

After the meeting with Putin, Trump abandoned calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine and redirected his efforts toward a peace agreement—a position that Moscow has long advocated.

Putin launched the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Russian forces today control large parts of the south and east of the country. | BGNES