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  • Russia fired nearly 300 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight.

  • These rocked cities in the east and the center of the country.

  • As NPR's Greg Myrie reports,

  • the attacks came around the time President Trump was hosting the leaders of Ukraine and several European nations seeking an end to the war.

  • Thick clouds of black smoke hung over the central city of Kremenchuk as the sun rose.

  • The city's mayor posted a photo on Facebook and said residents reported dozens of explosions.

  • He said that as President Trump was meeting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders,

  • Russia's Vladimir Putin was, quote, launching another major attack.

  • Ukraine shot down most, but not all, of the incoming fire.

  • Electricity was knocked out in some areas.

  • out drone strikes as part of the nightly exchange of fire.

  • The military said a Ukrainian strike took out a Russian pipeline that ships oil to Hungary.

  • Greg Myhre, NPR News, Kiev.

  • Weather forecasters say that Hurricane Erin remains a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • They say it will not make landfall on the East Coast,