Ukraine: Greater than 20 killed in Russian missile assault on Sumy

Zelenskyy additionally referred to as for a world response to the assault. “Talks have by no means stopped ballistic missiles and aerial bombs. What’s wanted is an angle towards Russia {that a} terrorist deserves,” he mentioned.

The strike comes lower than a day after Russia and Ukraine’s prime diplomats accused one another of violating a tentative US-brokered deal to pause strikes on power infrastructure, underscoring the challenges of negotiating an finish to the three-year-old battle.

The 2 international locations’ overseas ministers spoke at separate occasions on the annual Antalya Diplomacy Discussion board, a day after US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to debate peace prospects.

“The Ukrainians have been attacking us from the very starting, each passing day, possibly with two or three exceptions,” Russian overseas minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned, including that Moscow would offer the US, Turkey and worldwide our bodies with a listing of Kyiv’s assaults through the previous three weeks.

His Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, fiercely contested that declare, saying Saturday that Russia had launched “nearly 70 missiles, over 2,200 (exploding) drones, and over 6,000 guided aerial bombs at Ukraine, principally at civilians,” since agreeing to the restricted pause on strikes.