Kremlin remains defiant over Trump threats to stop war; four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, officials said, killing at least 17 inmates and wounded more than 80 others
A destroyed building in the Bilenkivska correctional colony in Bilenke, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. PICS/AFP
Russian glide bombs and ballistic missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight and killed at least 22 people across the country, officials said on Tuesday, as Russia kept up its relentless pounding of civilian areas despite US President Donald Trump’s threat to soon punish it with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops.
Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, officials said, killing at least 17 inmates and wounded more than 80 others. In the Dnipro region of central Ukraine, authorities said Russian missiles partially destroyed a three-story building and damaged nearby medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward. Officials said at least four people were killed and eight injured, including a pregnant woman who was in a serious condition.
Ukrainian servicemen fire at a drone from a sunflower field
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that across the country, 22 people were killed in Russian strikes on 73 cities, towns and villages. “These were deliberate, not accidental,” he said. Trump said on Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine, moving up a 50-day deadline he had given two weeks ago. The Kremlin pushed back, however, with a top Putin lieutenant warning Trump against “playing the ultimatum game with Russia”.
“Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran,” former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country’s Security Council, said. “Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” he said. Meanwhile, Russia its air defenses downed 74 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight, including 43 over the Bryansk region.
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