Russia launched missiles and 123 drones at Ukraine overnight

The Russian ministry also said its forces struck a drone-making plant in Kyiv and three facilities producing missile fuel and drone components near the capital. The talks, the first direct negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv in nine months, produced an agreement for a prisoner exchange, but the number was not announced.

Russia’s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said Moscow saw no possibility of a territorial exchange in a peace deal. U.S. mediators said mistrust and differences, including over territory, remained. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday and were scheduled to travel to Dublin for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.