Ukraine reported 149 Russian drones launched into the country overnight into the early hours of Sunday, the barrage coming hours after President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Pope Francis' funeral in Vatican City. Ukraine's air force said in a Telegram post that 57 of the drones were shot down and 67 were lost in flight. Six regions of the country -- Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Donetsk, Sumy and Cherkasy -- recorded damage from drone attacks, the air force said. The air force said in another post to Telegram that over the previous week, Russia attacked Ukraine with 48 missiles of various types and 442 attack drones. Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its forces downed eight Ukrainian drones overnight into Sunday morning.

Russia launched a sweeping drone assault and airstrikes across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people, officials said, after U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the war. Three people died and four were wounded Sunday morning in airstrikes on Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Another person died and a 14-year-old girl was wounded in a drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which was hit for the third consecutive night, local Gov. Serhii Lysak said.

Russia has escalated its nightly airstrikes on Ukrainian population centres in recent days, leading to a harsher tone from the Trump Administration about who is to blame for blocking a peace deal. On Saturday, Mr Trump accused Vladimir Putin of “tapping him along” and said that he was considering imposing sanctions on Russian banks and secondary countries. “There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Mr Trump wrote on his website Truth Social. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘banking’ or ‘secondary sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!