Russia tells the West to 'start negotiating' to end the 'destruction of the Ukrainian population' - hours after pounding Kyiv in huge drone attack

Russia has contiguous demanded that Kyiv's allies participate into negotiations with Moscow successful bid to halt its brutish attacks connected Ukrainians, arsenic the superior of the besieged state fended disconnected a large-scale drone barrage overnight.

Ukrainian aerial defence units successful Kyiv were heard shooting down Russian drones passim the nighttime portion aerial raid sirens echoed retired implicit the metropolis connected Thursday.

The caput of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu made the telephone for negotiations, saying the West faced a prime betwixt entering into talks with Moscow connected the warfare oregon the continuing 'destruction' of Ukraine's population.

'Now, erstwhile the concern successful the theatre of combat is not successful Kyiv's favour, the West is faced with a choice,' Shoigu said astatine a gathering with defence officials of different erstwhile Soviet states.

'To proceed financing (Kyiv) and the demolition of the Ukrainian colonisation oregon recognise the existent realities and commencement negotiating,' the erstwhile defence curate said.

They were among the archetypal comments from a Russian authoritative since Donald Trump, who has boasted helium could extremity the warfare successful a azygous day, was elected president of the United States - Ukraine's main governmental and subject ally.

And his comments came arsenic Ukrainian officials were taking banal aft different nighttime of aerial bombardments crossed the state and portion Moscow claimed the seizure of yet different colony successful eastbound Ukraine.

Moscow said its forces had wrested power of Kreminna Balka, a colony that had a pre-war colonisation of less than 50 radical successful the concern Donetsk portion wherever Ukrainian defences person been pushed backmost again and again.

Ukrainian media meantime reported that Donetsk portion authorities were preparing to denote mandatory evacuations from 7 much villages successful the portion that the Kremlin claimed successful 2022 was portion of Russia.

Its overnight drone onslaught connected Ukraine damaged buildings successful the confederate Black Sea metropolis of Odesa.

Two radical were injured successful Kyiv, authorities said, and debris from immoderate 36 drones that were changeable down landed successful six districts of the superior wherever the aerial alert lasted for astatine slightest 8 hours.

'The onslaught took spot successful waves, from antithetic directions, with drones entering the metropolis astatine antithetic altitudes - some precise debased and high,' the metropolis medication said.

The aerial unit said it had changeable down 74 Russian-deployed drones successful 11 antithetic regions, retired of a full of 106 drones launched by Moscow astatine Ukraine.

Russia has systematically targeted the superior with drone and rocket barrages since the archetypal time of its penetration launched astir 3 years agone connected February 24, 2022.

Electricity supplies successful the occidental regions of Rivne and Zhytomyr were temporarily chopped off, section vigor authorities said arsenic a effect of the drone attack.

The caput of the Kherson portion meantime said that a man's assemblage was recovered from the rubble of a location destroyed by the onslaught successful a Russian onslaught overnight.

And successful the eastbound Sumy region, the assemblage of different killed idiosyncratic was recovered pursuing a Russian airstrike hours earlier, the interior ministry said.

It comes aft erstwhile Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday that a Trump triumph successful the US predetermination would astir apt beryllium atrocious quality for Ukraine. 

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Putin said that that relations betwixt the US and Russia were astatine a historical low.