Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Rome on Saturday for talks with Italian officials and Pope Francis.

Zelenskyy’s trip comes as Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv and shelled cities in central and southern Ukraine, causing material damage, amid reports of some Ukrainian gains in Bakhmut, where heavy fighting has been under way for months.

Kyiv's air defenses shot down all the drones launched overnight by Russia, the capital's military administration reported Saturday, without specifying the number of drones.

There were no reports of damage or casualties, it said. It was the sixth drone attack on Kyiv this month.

In the central city of Khmelnytskyy, people were wounded, and critical infrastructure was damaged by Russian shelling overnight, the region's military administration reported early Saturday. #ukraine #italy #voanews

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