Anger in Odesa City under attack struggles to make sense of Trump and Putin's relationship

Olena Palash heard a loud buzzing above her flat in the Ukrainian port of Odesa. It was 11pm. First one drone, and another, then more. Soon afterwards, one of the Shaheds crashed into the children's clinic where she works.

- Luke Harding

An explosion shredded the building's facade. The metal covering of a car park was remade into a spaghetti-like jumble. Another drone smashed into a nearby kindergarten.

The attack on 18 February knocked out a substation and plunged some of the city into darkness. Four people were injured, including a 10-year-old girl, and 80,000 were left without heat. Russia's air war in the skies above Ukraine is nothing new. But since negotiations began between the US and Russia - talks from which Kyiv has been excluded - the raids have got dramatically worse.

Last week the Kremlin dispatched a record 267 drones on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. Over the weekend two civilians were killed and at least 20 injured in raids across the country. Each strike brings fresh misery to a war-weary population. And, latterly, they fan something else: anger at Donald Trump, whose humiliating treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday in the White House caused outrage and dismay.

Even before the car-crash encounter in the Oval Office, there was consternation over the US president's increasing closeness to Moscow. Trump has blamed Ukraine for starting the war that began with Russia's invasion and was accused by Zelenskyy of existing in a Russian "disinformation bubble". On Friday, Washington terminated its programme to help repair Ukraine's disrupted energy grid. Deliveries of US weapons could soon stop too.