Sumy, Ukraine (AP) – Russian missiles have struck the Heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy While people gathered To celebrate Palm SundayKilling at least 34 people, officials said in the second large -scale attack to win a civil life in just over a week.
The two ballistic missiles struck around 10:15 am, officials said. Images of the scene showed lines of black body bags on the side of the road, while more bodies have been seen wrapped in aluminum blankets among the debris. Video sequences have also shown that firefighter teams fighting to turn off the car burned bus shells from the rubble of damaged buildings.
The dead included two children, said the emergency service of the State of Ukraine in a statement. 117 other people were injured, including 15 children, he said.
“Only a dirty foam can act like this – taking the lives of ordinary people,” said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a press release on social networks, he said that the first strike had struck buildings belonging to a city university, while the second exploded above the street level.
The head of the office of the Ukrainian president Andriy Yermak said that the strike also used cluster ammunition to try to kill as many people as possible. The Associated Press could not verify the complaint.
The attack on Sumy followed a deadly missile strike on April 4 On the hometown of Zelenskyy, Kryvyi Rih It killed around twenty people, including nine children.
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Zelenskyy called for a global attack on the attack. “The talks have never stopped ballistic missiles and air bombs. What is necessary is an attitude towards Russia that a terrorist deserves,” he said.
Other world leaders have also condemned the attack, French President Emmanuel Macron saying that this has undermined the peace talks led by Washington between the two parties.
“Everyone knows it: this war was initiated by Russia alone. And today, it is clear that Russia alone chooses to continue-with a blatant contempt for human life, international law and diplomatic efforts by President Trump,” he wrote in a statement.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, two women, aged 62 and 68, and a 48 -year -old man were killed in Russian attacks against the Kherson region, said local governor Oleksandr Prokudin. Another person was killed during the Russian bombing on the Donetsk region of Ukraine, said Governor Vadym Filashkin.
The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, said that a Russian strike had struck one of the city’s children’s gardens, breaking the windows and damaging the facade of the building. No victim has been reported.
Spring offensive fears despite the peace talks
The strikes occur a day after the higher diplomats of Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of having violated a provisional agreement in the United States to suspend strikes on energy infrastructure, highlighting the challenges of negotiation of the end of the three-year war.
The foreign ministers of the two countries spoke during separate events at the annual antalya diplomacy forum one day after American envoy Steve Witkoff encounter Russian President Vladimir Putin To discuss the prospects for peace.
“The Ukrainians attacked us from the start, every day that passed, perhaps two or three exceptions,” said Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, adding that Moscow would provide in the United States, Turkey and international organizations with a list of kyiv’s attacks in the past three weeks.
His Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha, challenged this assertion, claiming on Saturday that Russia had launched nearly 70 missiles, more than 2,200 explosive drones and more than 6,000 guided air bombs in Ukraine, “mainly in civilians” since accepting the limited break on strikes.
Russian forces have the advantage in Ukraine and Kyiv warned The fact that Moscow provides for a new spring offensive to increase the pressure on his enemy and improve his negotiation position.
Ukraine has approved a wider American List proposalBut Russia has effectively blocked it by imposing large -scale conditions. European governments accused Putin of dragging his feet.
Retirement Lieutenant Kellogg retired, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said that Sumy’s attack had crossed “any decency line” and that the White House was determined to end the conflict.
“There are dozens of civilian people and wounded. As a former military leader, I understand targeting, and that’s wrong. That’s why President Trump is working hard to end this war,” he said.
The journalists of the Associated Press Volodymr Yuchuk in kyiv, Ukraine, and Katie Marie Davies in Manchester, England, contributed to this report.
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