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Key Points
  • Russia has launched the largest aerial bombardment on Ukraine since the war started.
  • At least 12 people were killed, including three children, and over 60 were injured.
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised silence of the US and others and called for more sanctions on Russia.
United States President Donald Trump has expressed deep unhappiness at Russia’s weekend bombing of Ukraine, saying of 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 told reporters.
Trump spoke after a Russian barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities on Sunday, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more.
Trump has been trying to get both sides to agree to a ceasefire in the three-year-old war in Ukraine and he spoke for more than two hours with Putin last week.

He raised the possibility of imposing more sanctions on Russia in response to the ongoing 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 criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy, posting that the Ukrainian leader “is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better 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 encouraging Russia’s attacks by failing to apply 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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