Kyiv drone attack kills woman as Putin hosts US envoys

Russia fired waves of explosive drones at Kyiv on Thursday, killing one woman and wounding several other people, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted US negotiators in Moscow.

An AFP reporter saw a residential building in flames as rescue workers pulled a body from the rubble. A second round of explosions was heard over the Ukrainian capital several hours later, and officials said a major road was hit.

US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in the Kremlin for a follow-up meeting with Putin after saying they sensed an opportunity to make progress on a peace deal.

Negotiators from the United States, Russia and Ukraine had gathered in Abu Dhabi earlier in the week for talks on ending the nearly five-year war, in what the item described as the first round of diplomacy since February.

Kushner and Witkoff were expected to travel later to Dublin to brief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was attending a European summit there.