Man weeps over the body of loved one killed by Putin drone as Ukraine is blitzed by latest wave of Russian drones

This is the heartbreaking moment a Ukrainian man breaks down in tears over the body of a loved one killed in a Russian drone strike.Several people were killed overnight as Russia launched its latest wave of drone attacks across Ukraine.In Odesa, a drone struck a car on the road, killing one person. Video footage from the scene shows a man screaming and sobbing as he throws himself over the body of a loved one who was killed.Two other people are also seen crying at the scene, as police officers and firefighters stand beside them.Meanwhile, in the northern Ukrainian region of Sumy, two people were killed in a drone strike, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Telegram.In Rivne, in the country's north-west, five people were injured after a Russian drone hit an apartment building, a local official said early on Friday.A hospital in Kyiv was damaged after a Russian attack triggered a fire and forced people to seek shelter. One person was wounded. Drones in Zaporizhzhia in the southeast killed a 17-year-old boy, acting regional governor Mykhailo Semikin said. Four people, whom rescuers managed to pull from under the rubble, were wounded.Footage from the scene shows a man screaming and sobbing as he throws himself over the body of a loved one who was killed Two other people are also seen crying at the scene, as police officers and firefighters stand beside them Rescuers work at the site of a hospital in Kyiv which was damaged in a Russian jet drone strike Medical workers evacuate patients from a hospital which was damaged in a Russian jet drone strikeMeanwhile, Russia on Friday said that it shot down nearly 1,200 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the largest swarms sent by Kyiv that left at least four people dead.The attack came a day after intense shuttle diplomacy in US-led talks to end the war approaching its fifth year.'In the course of the previous night... aerial defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,198' Ukrainian drones over more than 15 Russian regions, Russia's defence ministry said in a statement.Four people working in an industrial zone, home to an oil refinery and a chemical factory, died in the southern Volgograd region, local authorities said.Ukraine has intensified its drone attacks on Russia's energy industry over the past 18 months, seeking to cut the Kremlin's revenues and undermine its ability to finance the war Moscow launched in February 2022.Ukraine says Russia is targeting its own energy grid with aerial barrages, leaving residents across the country without power as temperatures plunge ahead of winter.It comes as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held hours of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday before jetting to Dublin to huddle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.After meeting with Putin in Moscow, Kushner said in a statement on X that Moscow had agreed to 'include our European partners' in the next round of negotiations to 'address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside the territorial issues between Ukraine and Russia.'Zelensky too said the Europeans would not be on the sidelines. 'We are involving European representatives even more actively in diplomacy so that they can have an equal seat at the negotiating table. Ukraine always defends the interests of all of Europe,' he said on X.European nations are now seeking an envoy to represent them in talks on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.Whether that should be one individual or more and who it might be is being debated as leaders from the 27-nation European Union meet Friday at a summit in Dublin. Senior EU officials and politicians have been suggested, but there is not yet a consensus.What the job might entail is also unclear and contested. But there is broad agreement by governments from the UK to Ukraine on the need for Europe to join the ongoing negotiations involving Moscow, Kyiv and Washington.Ukraine is eager for backup from its European allies, as it's reluctant to leave the talks solely in the hands of a US administration that has often seemed to lean toward Moscow's views. Russia does not want European countries involved in direct negotiations, complaining they are financing and supplying Ukraine's military effort.And the Europeans do not trust US President Donald Trump to negotiate on their behalf after a series of tense standoffs over trade, Greenland and conflicts in Iran and Ukraine.'Without Europeans, there is no support for Ukraine,' French President Emmanuel Macron said at the European Political Community meeting in Dublin on Thursday. 'There is no more U.S. support.''At the end of the day, we will be the ones to define and decide for our future security as Europeans,' he said.European leaders fear Russian President Vladimir Putin will press Trump to back a peace settlement that weakens not just Ukraine but broader European security. Putin has demanded NATO troops be pulled back from Russia's borders and that no European forces be deployed in Ukraine.British Prime Minister Andy Burnham rejected the idea that Europe was being sidelined during peace negotiations, saying 'there are European voices in the room.''All the leaders I've spoken to today are determined to put a bit of a ring of steel around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of all of this to back him up to the hilt, and that's what we will do,' he said. Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with US envoys - President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and businessman Steve Witkoff, at the Kremlin A police officer inspects the site of a residential house damaged by a Russian military strike City workers install a temporary fence and carry out restoration work at a cemetery damaged by a Russian drone strikeAs envoys from Washington, Moscow and Kyiv met in Abu Dhabi, several European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, attended discussions nearby.Supporters of a single envoy, like Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, argue that their absence has let individual countries or small groups engage in freelance diplomacy.'There are too many different groupings discussing the issue,' she said.Meloni has criticized a series of seemingly uncoordinated initiatives, including a call to Putin by Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, that she said could undermine European interests.She has increasingly pushed the idea of a common EU representative for Europe to speak with 'a single, authoritative voice' and requested a decision by Friday in Dublin to be formalized in December in coordination with non-EU partners in Europe like Britain and Norway.Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said that 'Europe has to have a coherent negotiating place at the table, but it's not just the European Union' and called for 'a wider European continent perspective' that includes the UK, Norway, Canada and others.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov argued that for Europe to join peace talks, it first must name a representative. 'The Europeans squabble like spiders in a jar. If someone takes the initiative to establish contact with the Russian side, those people face ostracism.'