DRONE, MISSILE ATTACKS
Hours before the meeting, Russian forces launched some 420 drones and 39 missiles at Ukraine, wounding more than two dozen people in at least six different regions, according to authorities.
AFP journalists heard several explosions in central Kyiv shortly after authorities warned Russia had launched its attack.
The strikes hit an electricity substation in the southern Odesa region, as well as a school building in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to officials.
“Destruction has been recorded in eight regions, with many private homes and apartment buildings damaged,” Zelenskyy said.
Also ahead of the meeting, Russia announced that it had returned the bodies of 1,000 killed Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine, while Moscow received 35 Russian bodies in exchange.
The two sides regularly exchange the remains of killed serviceman, one of the few areas of cooperation between the warring countries.