Russian strikes kill 3 in Ukraine as U.S. envoys prepare to visit Kyiv

Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, including two police officers in Dnipro, as Kyiv braces for renewed U.S. diplomatic visits aimed at ending the five-year war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said American envoys are expected in the capital within days. The overnight strikes included a "massive" attack on the Odesa region that killed one person and injured five, plus a drone hit on a Kyiv residential building that wounded three. Zelenskyy also reported a Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine's security service. U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner may visit Moscow first, then Kyiv, though officials have not confirmed the schedule. The intensified air war comes amid deadlocked front lines and stalled peace efforts, with Russia's Putin calling negotiations "frozen." Ukraine has escalated its own drone strikes on Russian oil facilities, including a recent attack on Sochi, while Finnish authorities investigate a Russian-made drone that washed ashore near Helsinki.