Tuesday morning, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the latest American-backed proposals for a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow looked “quite solid,” Russia launched a series of drone and missiles strikes against Ukraine.

The move comes days after a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions against the Belarusian potash industries, a key source of export earnings.

According to Ukraine’s Air Force, multiple groups of attack drones were detected heading toward Odesa shortly after midnight. Explosions were

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The weapon is the most recent iteration of the Poseidon, a nuclear-powered super torpedo named after the Greek god of the sea. When armed with a nuclear warhead, Poseidon can reportedly generate radioactive swells—or toxic ocean waves—which would be devastating for anyone living along the shoreline.

However, Russian officials, who over the weekend held their own talks with the U.S. team in the Sunshine State, continued to downplay any sense of progress and Moscow still shows little sign of yielding from the maximalist war demands that Ukraine surrender territory, reduce its army and never join NATO.

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Lieutenant General ‌Fanil Sarvarov, head ​of ‌the Russian ‍General Staff's ⁠army operational training directorate, was killed, the ​committee said. The committee said that one of the versions being investigated is that the bomb was planted ​by Ukrainian special services.