At least 10 people have been killed in two consecutive Russian attacks on hospitals in Soumi. Officials said the initial shelling killed one person and damaged several floors of the building, but while patients at the hospital were being evacuated, Russian forces struck again. At least 22 people were reportedly injured in the attack. Daniel Bell, head of the U.N. human rights watchdog in Ukraine, said “loitering weapons,” or suicide drones, struck the St. Panteleimon clinic in two attacks 45 minutes apart. “Most of the deaths occurred during the second attack, which occurred as first responders arrived on scene and patients attempted to evacuate,” she said. The city of Sumy is 32 km (20 miles) from the Russian border.
president of ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the Soumi attack a day after meeting Donald Trump in New York. “Everyone around the world who talks about this war must pay attention to what Russia is targeting,” President Zelenskiy wrote to X. “They are waging war against hospitals, civilian goods, and people's lives. Only force can lead Russia to peace. Peace through force is the only right path.”
In addition to the 10 killed on Saturday, at least seven civilians have been killed across Ukraine in the past 24 hours. authorities said. A Russian missile struck a five-story police building on Friday, killing four people in Kryvyi Rih, and authorities completed a rescue operation there on Saturday. Three of the four people killed in Quivi Ri were police officers. Meanwhile, dozens more were injured in other missile attacks and airstrikes on residential areas in Kherson, Donetsk and Odessa regions.
Russia's top diplomat on Saturday warned against “trying to fight for victory with nuclear powers.”, Delivered a UN General Assembly speech packed with accusations against what Russia sees as Western conspiracies in Ukraine and elsewhere (including within the UN). Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a shift in his country's nuclear policy, his country's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Western countries were using Ukraine as a means to strategically “overthrow” Russia. denounced.
China's foreign minister warned other leaders on Saturday against “expanding the battlefield” participated during the war, and Beijing said it remains committed to shuttle diplomacy and efforts to push the conflict toward an end.. China, along with Brazil, has proposed new talks involving Kiev and Moscow, and this week brought together countries from the Global South to back the plan. President Zelenskiy rejected China and Brazil's efforts and questioned why they would propose an alternative to their own peace formula.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Fox News aired on Saturday that he had received “very direct information” that former President Donald Trump supports Ukraine. If re-elected in November's presidential election, he will enter the war against Russia.. President Zelenskiy said: “I don't know what will happen after the election, I don't know who will be president… But I have heard very directly from Donald Trump that he will be on our side and will support Ukraine. I got a lot of information,” he said.
Two Russian attacks in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region on Saturday killed four people, including a Supreme Court judge. According to Ukrainian officials, who was delivering aid to local residents in civilian vehicles?. Regional governor Ole Sinievov said three people were killed and at least three others injured in the airstrike in the village of Slatin, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of the regional capital Kharkiv city.
Russia ready to go to court over Nord Stream pipeline explosion, A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Saturday that Russia had filed a “pre-trial motion.” Play against Denmark, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Maria Zakharova He insisted that the explosion that ruptured a multibillion-dollar pipeline in September 2022, seven months after Russia invaded Ukraine, was a “terrible act of international terrorism” and that Western countries “wanted to take matters into their own hands.” They accused him of trying to cover it up.
NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek EU funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, power lines and military warehouses. Estonian officials said it was along the border with Russia and Belarus. The Baltic states initially announced the “Baltic Defense Line” concept in January. In May, Poland announced a similar project called “Eastern Shield” aimed at strengthening its borders with the Russian enclaves of Kaliningrad and Belarus.
North Korea, which is suspected of illegally supplying weapons to Russia, said on Sunday that the US' $8 billion worth of military aid to Ukraine was an “incredible mistake”. Playing with nuclear power Russia. “The United States and Western countries should not ignore or underestimate Russia's serious warning,” Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement published by state news agency KCNA. Ta. President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia could use nuclear weapons if attacked with missiles. The United States says North Korea has shipped at least 16,500 weapons containers to Russia since September last year, and Russia has fired missiles from those shipments into Ukraine.
