Russian glide bomb kills 21 people in Ukrainian village, Ukraine says
Kyiv, Ukraine – A Russian slippery bomb killed at least 21 people when they aligned themselves to receive their pensions in a Ukrainian village on Tuesday, the Ukrainian government said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the strike on Yarova, in the key region of the Donetsk battlefield, “brutally wild”. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha, described him as a “obvious crime” which “requires condemnation and global action”.
The attack is the latest example of Ukrainian civilians killed or injured in daily Russian air strikes.
On Sunday, Russia has launched the biggest attack of this type since its launch of its large -scale invasion in February 2022. While many of these strikes use drones designed by Iran, Russia has used more and more sliding bombs: modern soviet weapons modern wings and satellite navigation guidance systems.
President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts making little progress, Zelenskyy and his minister used Tuesday’s attack to renew calls in the United States, Europe and the group of 20 people to punish Russia for his daily assault against his smallest neighbor.
“The Russians continue to destroy lives while avoiding new strong sanctions and new strong blows,” said the president. “The world should not remain silent. The world must not remain inactive. “
The victims were “ordinary citizens, gathered for one of the most common moments in daily life, reduced by Russian terror,” said Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukrainian legislative, in an online article. “The world should not remain passive,” she said.
NBC News asked for comments from the Russian Defense Ministry.
In addition to the deliberate and nocturnal bombing of Ukrainian cities in Russia, some 98% of civilian victims along the front lines occurred in the territory under Ukraine control, indicating that Russia was the aggressor, according to the United Nations monitors. In total, July saw 286 people killed and 1,388 injured, the highest since May 2022.
Russia currently controls around 20% of the Ukrainian territory, including the entire Luhansk region and part of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russian President Vladimir Putin took a total control of them a key demand in his war objectives, saying that he wanted to protect ethnic Russians.
Trump has taken an increasingly difficult rhetorical line on Putin, giving it various ultimatums to stop the murder. But he rarely followed with important steps to punish Moscow, often extending his deadlines.
On Sunday, the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, pointed out that the United States was open to a partnership with European countries to impose more sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil in order to collapse the Moscow economy.
A day later, American and European officials met in the US Treasury Department to discuss various forms of economic pressure to exercise Russia, including new sanctions and prices on Russian oil purchases, a familiar person told the Associated Press.
Trump once said that he could stop war in 24 hours, but found the reality more thorny.
Putin, who is crushing and gains in the attritional battlefield, has not moved his position according to which he will only end the war if Ukraine actually surrenders, demilly and abandon the ambitions of increasing ties with the West. Zelenskyy says he is ready to accept an immediate ceasefire, but is wary to allow Russia to come together and attack again.
Artem Grudinin reported that Kyiv and Alexander Smith have brought in London.
