According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and regional officials, at least 22 people have died as a result of Russian airstrikes, including 16 inmates and a pregnant woman.
The attacks occurred on Tuesday night, one day after Donald Trump gave Russia a new “10 or 12 day” deadline to reach a peace agreement in its conflict with Ukraine or face harsh new sanctions, shortening his earlier this month’s 50-day deadline.
Ivan Fedorov, the head of Zaporizhia’s military administration, claimed on Tuesday that Russia had launched eight overnight airstrikes against his region, including one at a prison close to Zaporizhia.
“Overnight, Russia bombed a penal colony close to Zaporizhzhia, killing 16 people and injuring 35. The suffering of Christians continues. Another flagrant war crime, Fedorov declared on X in English.
Zelenskyy listed a pregnant woman as one of three victims killed in a Russian missile attack on the city of Kamianske in the Dnipropetrovsk that targeted a hospital, putting the death toll on Tuesday at 22.
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According to Serhiy Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk military administration, a person was killed and several others were hurt in the Synelnykove district as well.
A “75-year-old woman was killed” in a separate attack on the Odesa-area village of Velyka Mykhailivka on Monday night. A 68-year-old man was hurt. On Telegram, Lysak claimed that a private home had been damaged.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime, which also makes threats against the United States through some of its mouthpieces, must be hit by economic and military blows that strip it of the ability to go to war, wrote Andriy Yermak, a senior aide to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on social media.
Russia’s air defense systems reported that 32 of the drones had been downed overnight, according to Ukraine’s Air Force, adding that its air defense systems had also detonated two missiles.
One person was killed in a number of Ukrainian drone attacks in the southern Rostov region of Russia, according to Russian authorities.
The Ministry of Defense in Russia reported that its defense units defused 74 drones overnight, including 22 over the Rostov region, despite only reporting how many of them were destroyed and not how many were launched.
On Ostrovsky Street, a car was damaged. Unfortunately, the driver who was driving it passed away,” Rostov region acting governor Yury Slyusar wrote in a post on Telegram.
He claimed that Salsk, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Volgodonsk, Bokovsky, Tarasovsky, and Slyusar were all targeted in the attack.
A freight train and passenger train were also damaged when drone debris fell on Salsk train station, according to Slyusar, and passengers had to be evacuated.
Russia’s Railways reported on Telegram that the power at the station was halted, causing the suspension of train traffic. There were no reported injuries.
Ukraine, which has frequently claimed that its attacks inside Russia are a response to Russian airstrikes, did not respond right away.
Both sides claim that their attacks were intended to kill civilians, but thousands of Ukrainians have died as a result of the conflict.
Since the start of the 2022 offensive, Kyiv has been attempting to stop Russia’s summer offensive, which has made new advances in regions on the eastern front line that have been largely spared.
Source: Aljazeera
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