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Key Points
  • Russia conducted its most extensive aerial offensive on Ukraine since the conflict began.
  • The assault resulted in at least 12 deaths, including three children, and over 60 injuries.
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized the silence from the US and others and urged for additional sanctions against Russia.
US President Donald Trump voiced strong dissatisfaction regarding Russia’s recent bombing in Ukraine over the weekend, stating about Russian President Vladimir Putin: “I’m not happy with Putin.”
“I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What the hell happened to him? Right? He’s killing a lot of people. I’m not happy about that,” Trump remarked to journalists.
Trump commented following Russia’s bombardment involving 367 drones and missiles targeting Ukrainian cities on Sunday, which included the capital, Kyiv, marking the most significant air assault of the ongoing war, causing at least 12 deaths and injuring numerous others.
Trump has been attempting to broker a ceasefire in the three-year-old conflict in Ukraine and recently engaged in a conversation that lasted more than two hours with Putin.

He suggested the possibility of implementing further sanctions on Russia in reaction to the sustained attacks.

“Always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all,” Trump said.
Trump later posted more comments on social media, saying of Putin, “He has gone absolutely CRAZY!”

He also reproached Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stating that the Ukrainian leader “is not helping his country by speaking as he does. Everything he says leads to issues, I don’t like it, and it needs to stop.”

Zelenskyy blames ‘the silence of America’

Zelenskyy has called on the US, which has taken a softer public line on Russia and Putin, since Donald Trump took office, to speak out.
“The silence of America, the silence of others in the world only encourages Putin,” he wrote on Telegram.
“Every such terrorist Russian strike is reason enough for new sanctions against Russia.”

It was the largest attack of the war in terms of weapons fired, although other strikes have killed more people.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a black shirt, speaks as he gestures with one hand.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the US of inciting Russia’s assaults by not imposing new sanctions. Source: SIPA USA / Danylo Antoniuk

Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klymenko said 12 people had been killed and 60 more wounded. Earlier, regional authorities and rescuers had said 13 people had been killed.

“This was a combined, ruthless strike aimed at civilians. The enemy once again showed that its goal is fear and death,” he wrote on Telegram.
The assault comes as Ukraine and Russia prepared to conduct the third and final day of a prisoner swap in which both sides will exchange a total of 1,000 people each.

US special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said the attack was “a clear violation” of the 1977 Geneva Protocols and called for an immediate ceasefire.

How are efforts to end the war progressing?

Ukraine and its European allies have sought to push Russia into signing a 30-day ceasefire as a first step to negotiating an end to the three-year war.
Their efforts suffered a blow last week when Trump declined to place further sanctions on Russia for not agreeing to an immediate pause in fighting, as Ukraine had wanted.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 298 drones and 69 missiles in its overnight assault, although it said it was able to down 266 drones and 45 missiles.

Damage extended to a string of regional centres, including Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, as well as Mykolaiv in the south and Ternopil in the west.
In Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, said 11 people were injured in drone strikes. No deaths were reported in the capital, although four were killed in the region around the city, according to officials.
This was the second large aerial attack in two days. On Saturday AEST, Russia launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles at Kyiv in waves that continued through the night.

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