
KYIV, Ukraine, June 16, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least eight people on Tuesday, officials said, just as G7 leaders agreed to intensify pressure on Moscow over its four-year-long offensive.
Since invading Ukraine in 2022, hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed, while swathes of the country have been ravaged by fighting.
G7 leaders as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in the French resort of Evian on Tuesday, where they agreed to increase sanctions on Moscow.
A Russian drone strike on a car in the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed three people on Tuesday, regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha said.
"It took the lives of a mother and son -- a woman of 87 and a 51-year-old man. Law enforcement is currently working to identify the third killed," he said.
Russian shelling of the Donetsk region city of Sloviansk killed three others, while drone strikes on the southern Kherson region killed two people and wounded 16, according to officials.
Trump met Zelensky on Tuesday, saying afterwards that Russia "should make a deal" to end the fighting.
Zelensky offered on Monday to meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the United States for peace talks, but the Kremlin said Tuesday it had not yet received such a proposal.
Putin said earlier this month that he saw "no point" in meeting Zelensky until a peace deal was ready.