President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukraine has sent Russia an offer to hold another round of peace talks next week and that he wants to speed up negotiations for a ceasefire.

Ukraine and Russia have held two rounds of talks in Istanbul over the past five months.

They have agreed to swap prisoners but made no breakthroughs in ending almost three and a half years of conflict that started with Russia’s 2022 invasion.

Two people were killed in a Russian missile strike in the Synelnykove district, the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Serhiy Lysak said.

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The Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were also hit, according to Zelenskiy.

-with AP and DPA