Strike 'sign of priorities'

RUSSIA fired more than 600 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours, officials said.

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At least three people were killed, including a four-year-old child.

The barrage struck homes and the power grid in 13 regions of Ukraine, causing widespread outages in bitter temperatures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day after he described recent progress on finding a peace deal “quite solid”.

The bombardment demonstrated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intention of prosecuting the invasion of Ukraine, Mr Zelensky said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

Ukrainian and European officials have complained that Mr Putin is not sincerely engaging with US-led peace efforts.