UPDATE 1-Russian drone strike kills 15 miners in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk, officials say

Fifteen people were ⁠killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, energy firm DTEK and government officials said on Sunday. The attack came ​hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that a second round of U.S.-brokered trilateral ‍talks between Ukraine and Russia would take place next week.

Fifteen people were ⁠killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, energy firm DTEK and government officials said on Sunday.

The attack came ​hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that a second round of U.S.-brokered trilateral ‍talks between Ukraine and Russia would take place next week. DTEK said in a statement that Russian forces had carried out a "massive terrorist attack" on a company mine in the region, and that all the ⁠dead ‌and wounded were ⁠its employees returning from a shift.

"Today, the enemy carried out a cynical and targeted attack on energy ‍sector workers in the Dnipropetrovsk region," energy minister Denys Shmyhal wrote on the Telegram app. SEVERAL HURT ​IN STRIKE ON MATERNITY HOSPITAL, OFFICIALS SAY

Police said the attack took ⁠place in the city of Terenivka. Footage posted by the State Emergencies Service showed a charred bus with ⁠shattered windows that had veered off the road. Earlier on Sunday, regional officials said at least nine had been wounded in Russian strikes on a maternity hospital ⁠and a residential building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.

Sunday's strikes also follow remarks ⁠by Zelenskiy earlier ‌in the day that Russia - which said it had agreed to stop attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure until February 1 - was still targeting ⁠logistics in Ukraine.

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