Russia launched an intense drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing a mother and her son in the capital, amid faltering U.S.-backed attempts to broker a pause in the fighting.

Sergei Tokarev, head of the military medical commission in the occupied peninsula died from gunshot wounds, according to reports.

By Illia Novikov & Dmytro Zhyhinas / The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine—Russia launched more than 100 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, after the Kremlin effectively rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the more than three-year war,

On the evening of May 12, russian troops attacked Ukraine with strike drones. This was reported on the Air Force's Telegram channel."Kherson, Mykolaiv Regions

In our news wrap Wednesday, Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted flights at Moscow's main airports for a third day, Russian strikes on Ukraine killed two people in Kyiv, hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 92 people and for the second time in two weeks,

European leaders threatened new sanctions unless Moscow accepted a cease-fire right away. President Trump seemed to endorse the idea of a meeting between Ukraine’s and Russia’s presidents, and said he might take part.