The death toll from the Russian nightclub with unmanned aircraft in Kiev increased to three, including a 5 -year -old child, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry today.

“Three people were killed, including a five -year -old child, and eight injured as a result of hostile attack with unmanned aerial vehicles”the ministry said in a post on the Telegram.

Earlier, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitsko, spoke via a Telegram of seven injured in the raid on the eve of the start of negotiations between Kiev and Moscow for a limited ceasefire ceasefire that will concern energy installations.

Last night, three civilians were killed and another was injured in a Russian bombing in the city of Pokropssk, Donetsk (east), near the front, the regional governor Vadim Filakin via Telegram.

Russian troops are a few kilometers from Pokropsk, a hub of transport and supply of crucial importance to the eastern, southern and southwest part of Ukraine. The area where the city is located with a population of 60,000 pre -war has turned into a theater of hard battles for months. A relatively small part of the residents, a few thousand, remains there.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski visited Ukrainian Armed Forces units defending this area earlier yesterday.

A dead in raid with Ukraine drones in Russia

Units of Russian anti -aircraft defense destroyed 59 Ukrainian unmanned aircraft (drones) targeted by regions of southern Russia and claimed the lives of a man in Rostov, as Russian authorities said today.

In a post on the Telegram, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that 29 of the drones were shot down overnight in the southern region of Rostov. Another 20 were dismissed in the Astrahan region of the Caspian. The rest of the drones were shot down in the regions of Voronez, Volgograd, Kursk and Saratov as well as in Crimea, according to the ministry.

The attack cost a man’s life, said Yuri Slioussar, a Rostov regional governor. “The car caught fire due to a drone attack,” Slilusar explained in a Telegram post. “A man in the car was killed,” he added.

Igor Babuskin, a ruler in the Astrahan Region, said fragments of damaged drone fell on a house and caused damage to a car, but without reporting injuries.