At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a series of overnight Russian missile strikes across Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday.
It comes just hours after Donald Trump warned Vladimir Putin to end the war within ten days or face crippling new sanctions.
The heaviest bombardment hit the Zaporizhzhia region, where eight strikes were carried out, including one that hit a prison, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the region’s military administration.
In a post on Telegram, he said: ’16 people were killed, 35 were wounded. The premises were destroyed and nearby houses were damaged.’
Missiles also rained down on the Dnipropetrovsk region, where several more people were killed and injured in multiple attacks, officials said.
A strike on the city of Kamyanske killed two people, wounded five others and damaged a hospital, according to regional governor Sergiy Lysak.
Another attack on the region’s Synelnykivsky district left one person dead and several more wounded, he said.
In a separate incident in Velykomykhaylivska on Monday night, ‘a 75-year-old woman was killed. A 68-year-old man was wounded. A private house was damaged,’ Lysak added in another Telegram post.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a series of overnight Russian missile strikes across Ukraine
The Zaporizhzhia region has been under constant attack since the war began. Russia has hit the region with drones in previous times
Ukrainian servicemen fire an autocannon towards a Russian drone in the Dnipropetrovsk region
In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person, according to local authorities.
‘A car was damaged on Ostrovsky Street. Unfortunately, the driver who was in it died,’ said Yuri Slyusar, acting governor of the Rostov region.
The attacks came as Ukrainian forces continue efforts to repel Russia’s summer offensive, which has pushed into areas that have been largely spared since the early stages of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, blasted the strikes, saying it was ‘another war crime’ committed by Russia.
Writing on X, he said: ‘(Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s regime, which also issues threats against the United States through some of its mouthpieces, must face economic and military blows that strip it of the capacity to wage war.’
Over the weekend, the Russian army announced it had ‘liberated the settlement of Maliyevka’ in the Dnipropetrovsk region, just weeks after it seized the first village in the area.
The strikes followed remarks by former US President Donald Trump, who on Monday warned Moscow it had just days to bring the war to an end.
He said Russia had ‘about 10 or 12 days’ to stop the conflict in Ukraine or face tough sanctions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff says the latest attacks is ‘another war crime’ committed by Russia
A street in the Zaporizhzhia region protected with anti-drone nets due to Russia’s constant bombardment
