Zelenski asked the United States to react after the largest air attack against Ukraine
Three children in the northern Zhitomir region include local authorities.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski called on the United States, who took a softer public position against Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin, since President Donald Trump took office to take a stand.
« The silence of America, the silence of others around the world only encourages Putin. Every such terrorist Russian blow is a reason for new sanctions on Russia, » he wrote in Telegram. |
Sunday’s attack was the largest since the start of the war with regard to the arms fired, although other strikes were more deadly.
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Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said 12 people were killed and 60 others were injured. Earlier data on the dead, given separately by regional authorities and rescuers, indicated the number of those killed in 13.
« It was a combined, ruthless blow against civilians. The enemy has once again shown that his goal is fear and death, » he wrote in Telegram. |
Ukraine and its European allies have tried to get Moscow to sign a 30-day cessation of fire as a first step towards the negotiations to end the three-year war.
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But their efforts are confronted with Moscow’s reluctance and President Trump’s refusal to impose additional sanctions on Moscow that she did not agree to the immediate interruption of the fighting, as Kiev wanted.
Waves of drones and rockets
The Ukrainian Air Force has announced that Russia has fired 298 drones and 69 rockets during its nightlife. 266 drones and 45 rockets were downloaded.
Damage has been caused in numerous regional centers, including Kharkov, Nikolaev and Ternopol.
In Kyiv, 1 people were injured, and four were killed in the surroundings of the capital.
In northeastern Ukraine, Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov said early on Sunday that drones had hit three urban areas and wounded three people. The explosions have broken windows on high residential blocks.
The drones killed a 77-year-old man and wounded five people in the southern town of Nikolaev, the regional governor said. He posted a photo of an apartment block with a large explosion hole and scattered ruins.
In the western region of Khmelnitsky, hundreds of kilometers from the front line of combat, four were killed and five others were injured, according to the governor.
« Without pressure, nothing will change and Russia and its allies will only accumulate strength for such murders in Western countries, » wrote the Cabinet Chief of Ukrainian President Andry Jermak in Telegram. |
According to Zelenski’s adviser, « Moscow will fight while he is able to produce weapons. »
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that its air defense units had captured or destroyed 95 Ukrainian drones over a four -hour period. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 12 Ukrainian drones were captured, flying to the capital.