In the attack in Bilopillia, a town located approximately 10 kilometers from the Russian border, seven individuals sustained injuries, with three reported to be in serious condition, as stated by local Governor Oleh Hryhorov and Ukraine’s national police. The Associated Press could not independently confirm this report. Moscow has not provided any comment.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy characterized the attack as the “deliberate killing of civilians”. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, he asserted that “Russians could scarcely not realize what kind of vehicle they were hitting”.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, on Saturday held open the possibility of Putin holding talks with Zelenskyy, providing the agreed prisoner swap goes ahead and if Russian and Ukrainian delegations reached unspecified further “agreements”.

Peskov also told reporters that Moscow will present Ukraine with a list of conditions for a ceasefire but gave no timeframe, or say what needed to happen before Zelenskyy and Putin can meet.

In Tirana, Albania, Zelenskyy met with leaders of 47 European countries to discuss security, defense and democratic standards against the backdrop of the war, including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

“Pressure on Russia must be maintained until Russia is ready to end the war,” Zelenskyy said on X.

Macron in Tirana on Saturday accused Putin of “cynicism” and said that Russia has failed to “respect” ceasefire proposals backed by the US and other Western nations.

The French president reiterated that a European “coalition of the willing” is ready to give Ukraine security guarantees and “put pressure on Russia”, something he said he expected Trump would support.

“Faced with President Putin’s cynicism, I believe that … in fact, I’m sure that President Trump, concerned about the credibility of the United States of America, will react,” he said.