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Shortly after Mr. Trump and Putin wrapped up their lengthy phone call, air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv, followed by explosions as residents took shelter.
Despite efforts to repel the attack, several strikes hit civilian infrastructure, including a direct drone strike on a hospital in Sumy and attacks on cities in Donetsk region. Russian drones were also reported over Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, and Cherkasy regions.
Emergency services said the hospital in Sumy was damaged and that about 150 patients were evacuated, but they did not report any casualties. That drone strike was first reported by top Zelenskyy aide Andriy Yermak, who, in a social media post about six hours after Mr. Trump’s call with Putin ended, said, “Russia is attacking civilian infrastructure and people right now,” mentioning specifically the attack on the health facility.
Speaking Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of “countering our common (Russian-American) efforts” by attacking Russia’s infrastructure. Peskov claimed Russia’s military had taken action Tuesday to halt its own planned attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the wake of the Trump-Putin call, including shooting down seven of its own drones.
He claimed Ukraine had time to do the same, reversing its own drone attack on Russia, but that it had chosen not to.
The Russian Defense Ministry said earlier Wednesday that its air defenses had intercepted 57 Ukrainian drones over the Azov Sea and several Russian regions — the border provinces of Kursk and Bryansk and the nearby regions of Oryol and Tula.
Separately, authorities in the Krasnodar region bordering the Crimean Peninsula, which was occupied and then unilaterally annexed by Russia in 2014 and remains under Moscow’s control, reported that a drone attack there had started a fire at an oil depot.
