Russia has continued its offensive, killing not less than 22 folks in Ukraine by launching ballistic missiles and glide bombs into a number of cities regardless of President Trump’s threats to slap sanctions and shorten the timeline for Moscow to comply with a ceasefire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned that 73 cities and villages got here beneath Russia’s in a single day assault, together with a hospital in Kamyanske and a correctional facility within the Zaporizhzhia area.
Russia’s navy struck the town hospital in Kamyanske, killing three folks, together with a pregnant girl, in line with Zelensky.
“Late yesterday, close to midnight, Russian plane dropped bombs on the grounds of a correctional colony within the Zaporizhzhia area,” Zelensky mentioned in a Tuesday morning post on social media platform X.
“It was a deliberate strike, intentional, not unintended. The Russians couldn’t have been unaware that they have been concentrating on civilians in that facility,” he added. “Many have been killed, and one other 43 folks have been wounded, a few of them with very extreme accidents.”
Trump mentioned Monday throughout his journey to Scotland that he would transfer up the timeline to impose sanctions in opposition to Russia to “about 10 or 12 days from right now,” telling reporters that, “we simply don’t see any progress being made.”
“You’ve gotten our bodies mendacity all around the road. And I say that’s not the way in which to do it. So we’ll see what occurs with that. I’m very disillusioned. I’m disillusioned in President Putin,” the president mentioned, standing alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
When requested concerning the president’s remarks, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov mentioned the Kremlin has “taken be aware” of Trump’s assertion.
“We stay dedicated to a peace course of to resolve the battle round Ukraine and to make sure our pursuits in the middle of this settlement,” Peskov informed reporters on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Trump said in early July that he would slap “extreme” tariffs on Russia if Moscow didn’t attain a ceasefire with Kyiv inside 50 days. The president additionally signaled the administration would institute a one hundred pc “secondary” tariff, going after international locations that do enterprise with Russia.