Ukraine-Russia war latest: Missile attack kills 11 in Dnipro before Zelensky-Trump meeting at Nato summit

 At least 11 people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on Dnipro, in south east Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is planning to meet with US president Donald Trump on the sidelines of the two-day Nato summit.

Governor Serhiy Lysak has said 18 children were among the 153 injured in the two-wave strike on the region.

Zelensky has urged Kyiv's 32 allies at a NATO summit to bolster Ukraine's defence industry, after signing a deal with Sir Keir Starmer on Monday which they said would strengthen both countries.

The deal comes after details of an assassination attempt against Zelensky were revealed.

Ukrainian security services said that in an attack planned last year, a retired Polish military officer who had been a sleeper agent for Russia was recruited to assassinate Zelensky at Rzeszów Airport in Poland.

Polish media reports that the attack was thwarted in April 2024 by Poland’s internal security agency, and the man, identified as Pawel K, was charged in May this year.

Those revelations come as waves of Russian drones and missiles in and around Kyiv overnight killed nine people including one child, Ukrainian officials said on Monday

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Russian missile attack kills 17 in Dnipro and injures more than 200

04:20 , Arpan Rai

A Russian missile attack in southeastern Ukraine yesterday killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds and caused sweeping damage, officials said, ahead of president Volodymyr Zelensky’s participation at Nato summit with Kyiv’s allies.

A Russian ballistic missile attack on Dnipro hit multiple civilian sites in the central Ukrainian city around midday, killing 17 people and injuring more than 200 others, officials said.

“The number of casualties is constantly being updated,” Dnipro’s regional administration head Serhii Lysak wrote on Telegram.

Among the wounded were at least 18 children, he added.

Two people were also killed in the town of Samar, around 10 km (six miles) from Dnipro, Mr Lysak said, adding that an infrastructure facility was damaged.

The rare daytime strike also damaged dozens of apartment buildings and educational facilities among other sites, according to Mayor Borys Filatov, who said the attack caused an "unprecedented amount of destruction" in the city.