‘The Russians continue to destroy lives, but avoid new strong sanctions,’ Zelenskyy says.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said at least 20 civilians were killed when a Russian glide bomb struck an eastern Ukrainian village, in the latest barrage from Moscow undermining any diplomatic momentum to end the war, now in its fourth year.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday the attack struck people waiting to collect pension payments in the village of Yarova, north of the urban areas of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in the eastern region of Donetsk, where some of the war’s fiercest fighting has been taking place recently.
“A brutally savage Russian airstrike,” he said in a post on X. “Directly on people. Ordinary civilians… There are no words.”
A video in the post showed numerous bodies strewn on the ground, next to a damaged vehicle.
