Russia and Ukraine traded deadly overnight strikes into Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the UN General Assembly in New York, where he was due to meet 
Donald Trump. Russian missiles and drones struck at least four Ukrainian regions, and officials said the attacks killed five people, PBS NewsHour reported. Ukraine's air force said the attack included anti-ship and ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and more than 200 drones.
What was hit in Ukraine? In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the country's industrial heartland, strikes hit the cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. Four people were killed and six injured in Dnipro, where Hanzha said a local business and a warehouse were also damaged. A drone killed a woman in the northern Sumy region, local police said. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces hit metallurgical and chemical industries, the fuel and energy sector and port facilities in four Ukrainian regions.
What was hit in Russia? Ukrainian drones killed one person and wounded four in the Samara region, which Deutsche Welle reported is home to oil refineries. Zelenskyy said special forces struck the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara and a second refinery in the neighboring Bashkortostan region. Moscow's Defense Ministry said it downed 297 Ukrainian drones overnight.
What did Trump and Zelenskyy say? When the two met on Tuesday, Trump was asked about Ukraine's strikes before they went behind closed doors and called them "a serious hit on the Russians, but also a serious hit on the price of diesel," PBS NewsHour reported. Trump had previously urged Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries, saying they were contributing to global shortages and higher prices. Zelenskyy has said Kyiv could halt them should Russia end its attacks on energy infrastructure. He said he hoped Trump would help end the war, and Trump said, "I think we're going to make a deal."
What else came up? Zelenskyy said Ukraine was still pressing the US for more Patriot air defense systems but "didn't get the very concrete answer." French President Emmanuel Macron said he had discussed with Trump a possible truce halting strikes on energy infrastructure, as well as a "moratorium" on attacks in the Black Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin is not expected at the General Assembly.
Figures referenced: Donald Trump. — JudgeMarket.
