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A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets early on Wednesday, killing nine people in wave of attacks that targeted civilian infrastructure in east, south and central Ukraine, officials said.

The full scale of the attacks, which kept Kyiv and the eastern half of Ukraine awake for several hours overnight, was not immediately known.

The strikes came as both Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy have signalled that they would be willing to negotiate a pact that would ban striking civilian infrastructure.