Drone strike 'kills boy'

RUSSIAN drones struck a house in central Ukraine, killing a 12-year-old boy, officials said, while long-range Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted a Russian port and an oil refinery as U.S. peace efforts continued out of public view.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were set to meet on Thursday in Miami with a Ukrainian delegation but there was no official confirmation whether the meeting took place.

Those scheduled talks came after discussions between President Vladimir Putin and the U.S. envoys at the Kremlin on Tuesday.

Previous diplomatic attempts to break the deadlock have come to nothing and the nearly four-year war has continued unabated.

Officials largely have kept a lid on how the latest talks are going, though Trump's initial 28-point plan was leaked.