Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv killed two people overnight, local authorities said Tuesday, while a Russian-installed official in annexed Crimea said a Ukrainian attack killed two people there. The attacks ended a weekend pause in strikes on each other's capitals that coincided with a renewed push by U.S. envoys to narrow differences between Moscow and Kyiv, according to the Associated Press.
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