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Russian air strikes kill 19 in southeastern Ukraine

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Published :
Jul 29, 2025 19:52
Updated :
Jul 29, 2025 19:52

A serviceman accompanies a prisoner at the site of the penal colony hit by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine July 29, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Stringer

Russian air strikes on southeastern Ukraine killed at least 19 people overnight, officials said on Tuesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would shorten a deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make peace.

Sixteen people were killed and dozens wounded when Russia bombed a prison in the front-line Zaporizhzhia region in an attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was "deliberate".

"The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility," he wrote on X. "And this was done after a completely clear position was voiced by the United States."

Separately, a missile strike on a hospital in the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region killed a 23-year-old pregnant woman and two others, Zelenskiy added. He said a total of 22 people had been killed over the past 24 hours.

Russia, which denied targeting civilians in Tuesday's attacks, has intensified airstrikes on Ukrainian towns and cities behind front lines of its full-scale invasion, now in its fourth year, as it gradually pushes ahead on the battlefield. Russian forces hold around a fifth of Ukrainian territory.

Trump, underscoring his frustration with Putin, said on Monday he would give 10 or 12 days for Russia to make progress towards ending the war.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it had "taken note" of Trump's statement. "The special military operation continues," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, employing the term that Moscow uses for its war effort in Ukraine.

'SCREAMING, MOANING'

Following Tuesday's attack on the prison, across the Dnipro River from Russian-occupied territory, injured inmates waded through rubble and broken glass.

Bandaged and bloody, they sat stunned as guards yelled out a roll call.

Ukraine's justice ministry said the prison's dining hall had been destroyed and other parts of the facility damaged in a strike that involved four high-explosive bombs and also wounded 42 people.

It had originally said 17 people were killed but later revised its tally.

"People were screaming, moaning," said prisoner Yaroslav Samarskiy, 54, recalling the aftermath of the strike.

"Some dead, some alive, some without legs - half of them burned."

Separately, five people were killed on Tuesday morning in the northeastern Kharkiv region after a Russian strike on a humanitarian aid point in a front-line village, a senior police official said.​

 

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Ukraine says Russian strike on training camp kills 3 soldiers

The Kremlin denied the claim, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters, “the Russian army does not strike civilian targets”.

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Ukraine says Russian strike on training camp kills 3 soldiers
AFP Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: 30 Jul 2025, 08: 56

Ukrainian soldiers of the 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss" load a 120 mm mortar mine into a French MO-120-RT61 mortar to fire towards Russian positions at a front line in the Donetsk region, on 4 March, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP

A Russian strike on a military training camp killed at least three Ukrainian soldiers on Tuesday, following an overnight offensive in the south that killed a pregnant woman and a dozen prisoners.

The Kremlin has come under intense pressure to end its war on Ukraine, now in its fourth year, with US President Donald Trump issuing a 10-day ultimatum to act or face sanctions.

On social media, the Ukrainian army said a Russian missile hit one of the ground force’s training units, without specifying the location.

At least “three servicemen are dead and 18 wounded,” it said Tuesday.

Over the previous night, a series of Russian attacks killed at least 25 civilians, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman and more than a dozen inmates at the Bilenkiska penal colony in southern Zaporizhzhia region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of deliberately targeting the prison, which the justice ministry said killed 17 people and wounded another 42.

The Kremlin denied the claim, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters, “the Russian army does not strike civilian targets”.

The attacks came hours after Trump said he was shortening the deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the war from 50 days to 10-12 days.

Hours later, Trump solidified the 10-day timeline, threatening “tariffs and stuff”, while also conceding to not knowing if the measures would work.

Peskov said Moscow had “taken note”, and that it remained “committed to the peace process to resolve the conflict around Ukraine and secure our interests”.

‘Prolonging the war’

The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched 37 drones and two missiles overnight into Tuesday, with 32 of the drones successfully downed.

Zelensky also accused Russia of targeting a hospital in the town of Kamyanske in Dnipropetrovsk region, killing three people and wounding 22.

Other Russian attacks killed six in the Kharkiv region, where the city of Kharkiv faced another attack at dawn on Wednesday.

“Putin is rejecting a ceasefire, avoiding a leaders’ meeting and prolonging the war,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on social media.

“He will only end his terror if we break the spine of his economy,” he added, calling on Western allies to impose sanctions.

Kyiv has been trying to repel Russia’s summer offensive, which has made fresh advances into areas largely spared since the start of the invasion in February 2022.

The Russian defence ministry claimed advances across the front line on Tuesday, saying its forces had taken two more villages—one in the Donetsk region, and another in Zaporizhzhia.

Tuesday’s prison strike fell on the third anniversary of an attack on the Olenivka detention centre in Russian-occupied Donetsk.

Ukraine and Russia traded blame for that nighttime strike, which Kyiv said killed dozens of soldiers who had laid down arms after a long Russian siege of the port city of Mariupol.​

 

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Zelensky urges allies to push for ‘regime change’ in Russia

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday urged his allies to bring about ‘regime change’ in Russia, hours after a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv killed 11 people including a six-year-old boy...

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Zelensky urges allies to push for ‘regime change’ in Russia
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 31 July, 2025, 23:45

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday urged his allies to bring about ‘regime change’ in Russia, hours after a Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv killed 11 people including a six-year-old boy.

The overnight strikes reduced part of a nine-storey apartment block in Kyiv’s western suburbs to rubble and wounded more than a hundred in the capital, according to authorities.

The Russian army meanwhile claimed to have captured Chasiv Yar, a strategically important hillside town in eastern Ukraine where the two sides have been fiercely fighting for months.

Moscow has stepped up its deadly aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months, resisting US pressure to end its nearly three-and-a-half year invasion as its forces grind forward on the battlefield.

Speaking virtually to a conference marking 50 years since the signing of the Cold War-era Helsinki Accords, Zelensky said he believed Russia could be ‘pushed’ to stop the war.

‘But if the world doesn’t aim to change the regime in Russia, that means even after the war ends, Moscow will still try to destabilise neighbouring countries,’ the Ukrainian leader added.

Between late Wednesday and early Thursday, Russia fired over 300 drones and eight cruise missiles at Ukraine, the main target of which was Kyiv, the Ukrainian air force said.

One missile tore through a nine-storey residential building in western Kyiv, tearing off its facade, authorities said.

AFP journalists at the scene of the strike saw rescuers scouring through a smouldering mound of broken concrete, the belongings of residents scattered among the debris.

‘It’s a shock. I still can’t get my bearings. It’s very frightening,’ Valentyna Chestopal, a 28-year-old resident of Kyiv, said.

Tymofii was woken up by the sound of a missile, ‘everything started falling on me. It was terrifying,’ said the resident of the Solomyansky district, whose apartment was destroyed and described the experience as ‘a nightmare.’

Among the victims was a six-year-old boy, who died on the way to hospital in an ambulance, the head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said in a post on Telegram.

The Russian army said it had hit Ukraine’s military airfield, ammunition warehouse and drone production facilities with a combined overnight strike using high-precision weaponry and drones.

The attack came just days after US president Donald Trump issued a 10-day ultimatum for Moscow to halt its invasion, now in its fourth year, or face sanctions.

Russia said on Thursday it had captured the town of Chasiv Yar, which had been a strategically important military hub for Ukrainian forces in the eastern Donetsk region.

The town ‘was liberated by Russian forces’, Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement, while a Ukrainian army spokesperson rejected Russia’s claim as ‘lies’.

Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko said the Russians ‘have full control over the entire northern and eastern part,’ of Chasiv Yar including districts that were hardest to get.

But that the fighting for the western side was still on-going, added.

He said the situation was ‘very difficult’ in the town that has been holding up in urban skirmishes for over two years, a record time in the war.

Taking control of Chasiv Yar would represent a major military boon for Russia, which has been making incremental but steady territorial gains for months.

Home to around 12,000 people before the war but now largely destroyed, the town’s capture would pave the way for Russian forces to advance on remaining civilian strongholds in the eastern Donetsk region.

These include the garrison city of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, important logistical bases for the Ukrainian military and home to many civilians, who have up to now not fled the fighting.

The Kremlin has made the capture of the Donetsk region a priority since it claimed the industrial region as part of Russia in September 2022.

Russia, which denies targeting civilians, has not yet commented on the strike or Zelensky’s call for regime change.

Putin has himself called for Zelensky to be removed from office and has repeatedly questioned his legitimacy.

Thursday’s attacks came just hours before lawmakers in Ukraine’s parliament voted to overturn a highly criticised law that curbed the powers of two anti-graft bodies.

Zelensky, who signed the new bill into law shortly after the vote on Thursday, reversed course after the legislation sparked the biggest public unrest in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began.

The original law had put the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office under the direct authority of the prosecutor general, who is appointed by the president.

Critics said the move would allow Zelensky to meddle in high-profile corruption cases, while the European Union warned the bill could derail anti-corruption reforms key to joining the bloc.

A total of 331 members of parliament, the minimum required being 226, approved the new legislation, which was lauded by the European Union as a key safeguard against corruption.​

 

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Putin, facing Trump deadline, says he hopes Ukraine peace talks will continue

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he hoped peace talks between Russia and Ukraine would continue and that working groups could discuss potential compromises, but said Moscow’s goals remained unchanged. Speaking one week before the expiry of a deadline set by US President D

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Putin, facing Trump deadline, says he hopes Ukraine peace talks will continue

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Published :
Aug 01, 2025 19:16
Updated :
Aug 01, 2025 19:16

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko visit the Valaam Monastery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia Aug 1, 2025. Photo : Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Files

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he hoped peace talks between Russia and Ukraine would continue and that working groups could discuss potential compromises, but said Moscow’s goals remained unchanged.

Speaking one week before the expiry of a deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Russia to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine or face new sanctions - including on countries that buy its energy exports - Putin gave no hint of any change in Moscow’s position.

He said that if anyone was disappointed in the outcome of peace talks to date, that was a consequence of inflated expectations.

Speaking to reporters at a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in northern Russia, Putin said talks should be conducted “without cameras and in a calm atmosphere.”

He said Russian troops were attacking Ukraine along the entire front line and that the momentum was in their favour, citing the announcement by his Defence Ministry on Thursday that Moscow’s forces had captured the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar after a 16-month battle.

Ukraine denied Chasiv Yar is under full Russian control.​

 

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Two-year-old among 28 dead in Thursday’s Russian attack on Kyiv

A two-year-old child was found dead in the rubble after Thursday’s sweeping Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s prime minister said on Friday, taking the death toll to 28, with over 150 wounded. The toddler was the third child to have died in the attack, in which Russia

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Two-year-old among 28 dead in Thursday’s Russian attack on Kyiv

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Published :
Aug 01, 2025 17:24
Updated :
Aug 01, 2025 17:24

Rescuers carry the body of a person found under debris of an apartment building which was hit a day before, by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released Aug 1, 2025. Photo : REUTERS

A two-year-old child was found dead in the rubble after Thursday’s sweeping Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s prime minister said on Friday, taking the death toll to 28, with over 150 wounded.

The toddler was the third child to have died in the attack, in which Russia launched more than 300 drones and eight missiles in the early hours of Thursday morning. The other two underage victims were six and 17 years old, the head of Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak said.

The rescue service said 16 of the injured were children, the largest number of children hurt in a single attack on Ukraine’s capital since Russia started its full-scale invasion almost 3-1/2 years ago.

City authorities declared Friday a day of mourning as rescue operations continued.

“This morning, the body of a 2-year-old child was pulled from the rubble, bringing the total dead to 28, of which 3 are children,” Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X, adding that over 150 people had been wounded.

“The world possesses every instrument required to ensure Russia is brought to justice. What is lacking is not power — but will,” Svyrydenko said.

US President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, sharply criticised Russia’s “disgusting” behaviour against Ukraine but said he was not sure whether sanctions would deter Russia.

He has given Russian President Vladimir Putin until Aug 8 to make a deal or else he will respond with economic pressure.​