Ukraine war: Russia rejects ceasefire, kills 6 in fresh attack

Plans for a summit of United States and Russian leaders have been shelved after Moscow rejected a ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including two children, and forced power outages nationwide, officials confirmed on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.

The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said on Telegram that debris from downed weapons strewed the Ukrainian capital, sparking fires in half its districts.

Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said: “Ukraine long ago agreed to the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, while Moscow is doing everything to keep the killing going.

“This means collective actions against Putin are currently insufficient, and we must all do more together to make him stop killing our people.”

The comments came after the White House on Tuesday put on hold a planned summit of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Moscow rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire.

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A senior U.S. official told Reuters there were no plans for a meeting soon.

Two people were killed in the Kyiv attack, while four, including two children, died in the aftermath of Russian strikes on the surrounding region, Ukraine’s emergency service said.

Ten people were rescued from a fire in a high-rise building in Kyiv’s district of Dniprovskyi, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko, with a child among the five admitted to hospital across the city.

Officials said fires also broke out in the districts of Desnianskyi, Darnytskyi and Pecherskyi, the last home to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history.

Ukrainian officials said the attacks ran through most of the night and early Wednesday, initially with ballistic missiles and subsequently drone strikes.

There was no immediate comment from Russia.

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