Russia has carried out yet more devastating strikes on Ukrainian cities, just hours after US President Donald Trump suggested Vladimir Putin may not want peace. Kyiv said on Sunday (April 27) that Russia launched at least 149 drones at its cities overnight, with one person killed.

The Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Sumy, and Cherkasy regions were targeted, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's air force said it shot down nearly 60 drones, while almost 70 vanished from radars without reaching their targets, which usually is the result of jamming by electronic defence systems.

The Governor of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region said a man was killed in the city of Pavlohrad and a girl aged 14 was wounded. The same city was targeted by Russia on Friday, with a drone strike damaging a residential building and causing multiple civilian casualties.

News of the strikes comes after US President Donald Trump said on Saturday (April 26) that he doubted Russia President Vladimir Putin wants to end the war in Ukraine.

Mr Trump expressed scepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon after only a day earlier saying Ukraine and Russia were "very close to a deal".

In a social media post, Mr Trump said: "There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days."

He added: "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!"

His comments were in sharp contrast with Mr Trump's positive assessment that the two sides were "very close to a deal" after his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Putin in Moscow on Friday. They came after Mr Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral in Vatican City yesterday.