The attacks in eastern Ukraine follow an attack in Sumy that killed more than 30 people, generating a conviction.
Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine have killed at least four civilians, one day after one of the most mortal attacks in recent months left more than 30 people dead in Sumy in the northwest and drew the conviction.
Local officials in the Kharkiv region reported that the artillery and rocket fire arrived on Monday in the city of Kupiansk, a strategic rail crossing held by the Russian forces and resumed by Ukraine in 2022. Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, also the largest city, also lar Ciudad, also the largest city, also the largest city, also the largest city, also largest, also the largest city, also the largest city, also the largest city, also the largest city, also large City, also the largest city, also the largest city. Citygt, bigger and bigger Citygt. Underlining the concerted efforts of Moscow to gain ground in the northeast.
The governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Syniehubov, said that the man of a young man and a 61 -year -old woman died in Monday’s bombings, while a rocket strike claimed the life of a 77 -year -old woman and a 52 -year -old man.
‘Russian error’
The attacks follow Sunday’s twin missile strike in the center of Sumy, where Christian civilians had gathered for the Mark Pamos on Palm Sunday.
Ukrainian officials said that at least 34 people were killed and more than 100 wounds in the explosion. Among the dead were two children.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemned the attack as a deliberate orientation of civilians. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, in an interview in the 60 -minute news program of the CBS television network to “please, before any type of decisions, any type of negotiations, comes to see people, civilians, warriors, churches, churches.”
Despite the heavy civil cost, Trump, who has previously faced criticism for his clemency for Russia and President Vladimir Putin, described the attack Sumy as a “error” and a “horrible things.”
Claim of ‘human shields’
The Kremlin said it reached a military objective, saying that two Tactical missiles from ISKANDER-M arrived at a meeting of Ukrainian officers in Sumy and blamed kyiv for using civilians as “human shields” without providing evidence.
Russia accused Ukraine or endangered civilians carrying out military operations in urban areas.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the objective was part of an operational command center and the attack killed more than 60 Ukrainian soldiers. There has been no confirmation of that on the side of Ukraine.
The Poles Foreign Minister, Radoslaw, Sikorski, on Monday urged his advisors to recognize that Putin is “making fun of his good will.” Several other leaders of the European Union and the United Kingdom condemned Russia on Sunday.
Russia accuses Germany of climbing
On the average, the Kremlin warned the incoming chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, about suggestions that his government could consider sending long -range bullfighting missiles to Ukraine.
Merz told the German media that if there was a consensus among the European allies, he would support the move. “That would be a way of finally putting this country [Ukraine] Strategically, to remain with the term, before the situation, “he added that he was not convinced that” Putin reactively to weakness and peace sacrifices. “
Merz called Sumy attack “a serious war crime.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that such a step “would inevitably lead only to an additional escalation” and accused Western leaders of feeding the war.
Berlin, one of kyiv’s main arms suppliers, so far has a hero to provide Taurus missiles despite the repeated Ukrainian appeals.