Authorities say Ukraine president's plane stalled due to drone attack

Russia and Ukraine continues to strike each other with missiles as US President Donald Trump says a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy might happen following his phone conversation with Putin.

Local authorities in Ukraine said Wednesday that at least two people were killed and 14 others injured following a Russian drone attack on shopping center in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

At least four vehicles and the building of the shopping centre were damaged as a result of the attack, State Emergency Service added in a statement on social media.

First responders can be seen assisting the affected people and securing the bodies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided the international community for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bombardment of civilian areas of Ukraine.

He furthered that Moscow always denies it aims at civilians and says it is targeting military-related facilities.

At least four people were killed and 29 others were injured by a Ukrainian strike in Russia's Novorossiysk region, according to Krasnodar region's governor on Wednesday.

Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that three private houses and five apartment buildings were damaged in the drone attack.

Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko reported that drone fragments fell in the vicinity of several industrial plants.

This comes as US President Donald Trump said a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy might happen following his phone conversation with Putin.

Trump and Putin held a telephone conversation lasting an hour on ending the Ukraine conflict on Tuesday. Trump said it was a great conversation and Putin is wanting to make a deal.

Meanwhile, a flight scheduled to carry Ukrainian President Zelenskyy from Moldova to Norway earlier this week was delayed when authorities closed Moldova's airspace because of a drone incursion, a government spokesperson said Wednesday.

Moldovan police said a Russian drone crashed on Tuesday in a sunflower field on the outskirts of a village in Riscani district, which caused four fires to break out but no injuries.

On Wednesday, government spokesperson Dumitru Ciorici said Moldova had closed its airspace Tuesday afternoon to protect aircraft flying over the country at the time, delaying three departures, including the one carrying Zelenskyy.