Most Ukrainians 'think there's no chance of a peace deal' with Russia

For more on this, we can cross now to our correspondent, Gulliver Craig, who's standing by in Ukraine. So, Gulliver, we heard a little bit about these Russian strikes on Ukraine. What more can you tell us at this point? Well, there were attacks all across the country overnight, drone attacks on cities like Rivne in the west, where some private houses were damaged, residential accommodation. Similarly, in Vinnytsia, which is in the sort of center west, explosions were held further to the west of there in Khmelnytskyi. That's for the West. In the South, in Odessa, two people were killed in the port city there. One person was reported killed in Zaporizhia. And then this hospital right in the center of Kiev that you mentioned that was hit. Several people wounded also in all of those places. The prime minister, though, said that the attack was focused mainly, despite these damages to buildings and to this hospital, on electricity infrastructure substations. So it's the ongoing campaign by the Russians to try to deprive Ukraine of electricity. And in Kiev, we certainly have got regular rolling power cuts at the moment. It comes on and then it goes off again. This is possibly, Ukrainians are worrying, It's been made worse by the fact that, according to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Starlink or Star Shield, as it should be known when it's being used for military purposes, has again been restricted for the Ukrainian army. And one of the things they use it for is for the interceptor drones that shoot down incoming Russian drones. So it may be that there would have been less damage had the Ukrainians had full access to that technology. It's a very worrying development that Volodymyr Zelensky started talking about. Now, Gulliver here, we've been talking about these talks, trilateral talks that happened earlier in the week, the U.S. still trying to push to get these peace talks back together. How do the Ukrainians feel about this and these negotiations? Most people don't think that there is any chance of a peace deal at the moment. I think that people do not see any sign from the Russians of any real willingness to compromise. Actually, quite the contrary. They seem to have been coming up with new demands, according to reporting by Germany's Bild newspaper, even demanding that Finland, which recently joined NATO, leave the alliance as part of this new European security architecture that they have managed to get put onto the agenda for these talks in Abu Dhabi, which extends... The question of Europe's future security situation to countries other than Ukraine, the Russians apparently have got requirements of Moldova now as well. None of this is acceptable to the Ukrainians, and it's not being accompanied by major Russian advances on the battlefield either. Although the damage from these long-range strikes to Ukraine is very, very severe and very worrying, there is also damage to the Russian economy from the Ukrainian. ...strikes, and there is very little progress on the ground in Donbas, in the east of the country. If there is any progress, actually, it's probably been more in terms of Ukraine clawing back a bit of territory in the north of Donetsk region. At these talks, the Russians have also been talking about doing another humanitarian operation to let those civilians remaining in the battered city of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region out. Ukrainians, or at least the commentators I've been listening to, have been saying that this sounds like a trap. A ploy to allow the Russians to redeploy forces to more advantageous positions in that city under the cover of a humanitarian operation, because they say, the Ukrainian military, that that's exactly what they did in the recent humanitarian operation to let civilians out of Oleshky in Kherson region.