For seventy-two hours, the skies above Kyiv were quiet — a narrow diplomatic truce brokered by American envoys who traveled between Moscow and Kyiv in search of an opening that did not yet exist. When the pause expired Monday evening, Russian drones returned to the Ukrainian capital by Tuesday morning, killing at least two and wounding seven in residential neighborhoods. The ceasefire had held only where it was asked to hold, and only for as long as it was permitted to — a reminder that pauses in war are not peace, and that words like 'encouraged' and 'substantive' carry no weight against the
Russia resumes Kyiv strikes as US-brokered pause expires
At least two people killed and seven wounded in Russian air strikes on Kyiv; Ukrainian drone attack in Saratov injured several civilians with unconfirmed casualty count.