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In this image made from video provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, shows a Russian serviceman launches an Orlan-10 reconnaissance drone tfor an action in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Drone strikes killed one person in Ukraine and another in Russia on Saturday ahead of fresh U.S.-brokered peace talks. Ukrainian officials said Saturday a Russian drone hit a residential building in Odesa and killed an older woman. In Russia, a civilian was reported killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a car in the border region of Bryansk. Another round of discussions between envoys from Russia and Ukraine will take place next on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva. The talks come as fighting grinds on along the front line, with Russia bombing Ukrainian cities and the power grid and Ukraine launching long-range drone attacks inside Russia.

U.S. Central Command says a U.S. Navy fighter jet has shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea. In an emailed statement Tuesday, U.S. Central Command says the drone “aggressively approached” the aircraft carrier with “unclear intent” and kept flying toward it "despite de-escalatory measures taken by U.S. forces operating in international waters.” The U.S. military says the shootdown occurred within hours of another incident in which Iranian forces harassed a U.S.-flagged and U.S.-crewed merchant vessel that was sailing in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s president says he's instructed his foreign minister to “pursue fair and equitable negotiations” with the U.S.