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At least 20 civilians were killed in a Russian airstrike on a village in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
“Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed,” he wrote on X, describing the attack on the rural settlement of Yarova as “brutally savage”.
The Ukrainian president shared a graphic video on X showing several dead bodies lying near a destroyed white van.
“A response is needed from the United States. A response is needed from Europe. A response is needed from the G20,” he added.
It comes after the EU’s ambassador to Ukraine said Russia had used a ballistic missile armed with cluster munitions in its strike on Kyiv’s main government building on Monday.
At least four people, including an infant, were killed on Sunday as Russia launched its largest air attack of the war so far, setting fire to the building housing Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers in central Kyiv.
US president Donald Trump said he was ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Russia after the attack.
Four Ukrainian soldiers have been rescued from a hospital deep inside Russian territory after remaining hidden for three years, the commander of the Ukrainian Navy said.
The troops were wounded in battle in 2022 and remained in hospital in Russian-occupied Ukraine, where “sympathetic doctors” helped to protect them from Russian secret services, commander Oleksii Neizhpapa said on Facebook.
A marine, three National Guards and a medical worker who had helped to hide the soldiers have all been evacuated.
“Our guys survived where it seemed there was no chance,” said Mr Neizhpapa, in a post announcing the rescue and giving details of how it was carried out.
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Russia’s latest attack is “yet another confirmation of the systemic terror against the civilian population of Ukraine”, Kyiv’s human rights commissioner has said.
“Russia has launched a cynical and brutal airstrike on the village of Yarova in the Donetsk region,” Dmytro Lubinets wrote on X.
“The bombs hit civilians right at the moment they were receiving their pensions. According to preliminary data, more than 20 people were killed.
“This is yet another confirmation of the systemic terror against the civilian population of Ukraine, which requires a decisive response from the international community and the inevitable punishment of the perpetrators.”
Russia is set to manufacture close to 2,500 high-precision missiles in 2025, according to a top Ukrainian intelligence official.
Major General Vadym Skibitskyi told Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform that the weapons span cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic classes.
“In addition, we are observing a significant growth in the output of unmanned aerial vehicles, primarily such as Geran, Garpiya, and FPV drones,” Skibitskyi added.
A Ukrainian troop who was wounded in the leg by an attack drone in eastern Ukraine has described his dramatic five-day escape back to safety.
Surovyi, a 40-year-old Ukrainian soldier, knew his flight to safety would be fraught with danger.
In the end, it meant five days of crawling through the scrub, hiding in ditches and covering himself with branches and earth to escape the gaze of Russian surveillance and attack drones buzzing in the air searching for targets.
“My leg went numb, I do not even know how to call this feeling, but I understood it was useless and I said to my comrade: let’s get out of here or we will get killed,” he recalled in an interview.
Surovyi, which means “strict”, is the soldier’s call sign, which is how troops identify themselves for security reasons.
He was speaking in a field hospital where he was taken by members of his brigade once they managed to rendezvous with him.
US president Donald Trump said he is ready to move into a second phase of Russian sanctions after Moscow hit Ukraine with its largest air attack of the war.
On Sunday, Mr Trump signalled he may finally escalate sanctions on Moscow or its oil buyers, which he has so far delayed to pursue peace talks.
The European Union followed on Monday with confirmation it is coordinating new sanctions with the US, echoing US treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s comments that Washington would need “European partners to follow us” if they were to exert further economic pressure.
After repeatedly vowing to end the war within 24 hours, the US leader has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin as fighting continues to intensify.
Steffie Banatvala reports:
A meeting for the Ramstein Format, an alliance of 57 countries supporting the defence of Ukraine, will be held online on Tuesday.
A number of ministers and officials including UK defence secretary John Healey, German defence minister Boris Pistorius, Nato secretary general Mark Rutte and Ukrainian defence minister Denys Shmyhal will attend the meeting in person.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3:15pm UK time (5:15pm Kyiv time).
More than 20 civilians were killed in a Russian airstrike on a village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
“Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed,” he wrote on X, before calling for Kyiv’s allies to increase pressure on Moscow to end its war in Ukraine.
“The world must not remain silent. The world must not remain idle. A response is needed from the United States. A response is needed from Europe. A response is needed from the G20.”
The Trump administration has informed European countries that it will withdraw from joint efforts to combat disinformation coming from Russia, China and Iran, The Financial Times is reporting.
European countries received a notice from the State Department last week about the move, explaining that the US is terminating a memoranda of understanding which was signed in 2024 under president Joe Biden.
The agreements had been created to form a unified approach to identifying and exposing harmful information from Russia, China and Iran.
James Rubin, who led the Global Engagement Centre running the initiative, described the move as a “unilateral act of disarmament” in the information war against Russia and China.
A blaze erupted at an oil depot in Ruissia’s Belgorod region earlier on Tuesday, after a drone attack was reported by governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
“The fire at the oil depot in Prokhorovka has been completely extinguished,” he said. “There were no casualties. Some storage tanks were damaged as a result of the attack.”
Firefighting trains were also deployed to address the fire, he said.
Gladkov did not explicitly link the fire to the drone attack.
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