India, Nov. 5 -- Russian forces struck fresh targets in Ukraine on Thursday amid hopes of fresh peace talks, brokered by the White House, between the two warring sides. The strikes come at a particularly concerning point as recent close ties between the US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin stoked fears of the US turning its back on Kyiv.

If the talks go forward as planned, this would mark the first time since February this year that all three parties sit together to try and resolve the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Amid hopes of peace talks, Moscow upped the ante by targeting a Nova Poshta logistics hub in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a power station in Dnipropetrovsk and a cargo vessel at sea 52 km south west from...