Russian strikes target Ukraine's energy infrastructure

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00:00As smoke rises from this destroyed house, rescuers search through the rubble, looking

00:05for victims.

00:07According to Ukrainian authorities, this latest strike on the residential area of Zaporizhia

00:12was most likely to have come from a drone.

00:17It's probably an explosion of a Shahed drone.

00:20Currently, all services of the city council and the police are here.

00:24We are clearing the rubble now and we are gathering information on the victims.

00:32There were similar scenes further north, in the Sumy region, on the border, where Russian

00:36bombing also gutted out these buildings.

00:40Ukrainians are responding with new strikes.

00:42The images from these security cameras show the extent of the destruction following a

00:46drone explosion in this southern Russian town, near the Ukrainian border.

00:52Such strikes have been targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure for the past three years.

00:57In retaliation, the Ukrainian government targeted this fuel depot and the strategic Russian

01:02military base, which houses bombers capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

01:07Halting strikes on energy infrastructure will be the central issue during the next round

01:12of talks to be held in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

01:17The first step could be, and this is why there will be a technical meeting, a ceasefire

01:22in the air, with the conditions that President Trump talked to me about on the phone.

01:30He told me what he and Putin had talked about, it was about not hitting energy facilities

01:35and other civilian infrastructure with missiles or other long-range weapons.

01:41Negotiations face a very uncertain outcome.

01:44Russia, meanwhile, has maintained its support for Ukraine.

01:47On Friday, Germany announced a further 3 billion euros in military aid.

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