At least 12 people were killed when a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the country’s energy minister.

Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a post on Telegram on Sunday that the attack deliberately targeted workers in the energy sector.

“The enemy carried out a cynical and targeted strike on energy workers in the Dnipro region,” he wrote. “Twelve miners were killed and seven others were injured.”

Police said the attack occurred in the city of Ternivka. Video released by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service showed a burned-out bus with shattered windows that had left the roadway.

Energy company DTEK confirmed that those killed and wounded were its employees returning from their shift.

Earlier on Sunday, regional officials reported that at least nine people were injured in Russian attacks on a maternity hospital and a residential building in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.

The latest strikes come days after US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to temporarily halt attacks on Kyiv and other cities amid freezing winter conditions.

The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that it would suspend strikes on the capital until Sunday but gave no further details.

Russia and Ukraine held trilateral talks with the United States in Abu Dhabi last month and are expected to meet again this month as Washington presses for an end to the nearly four-year-old war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the next round of talks would take place in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Thursday.

Although officials from both sides have signalled openness to compromise, Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on key issues, particularly whether Russia should withdraw from occupied Ukrainian territory, including parts of the eastern industrial Donbas region

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