Russian strike kills 22 civilians in Ukraine despite Trump’s sanctions threat
Russian gliding bombs and ballistic missiles hit Ukrainian prisons and medical facilities overnight, officials said Tuesday, even as Russia’s ruthless strike against civilians killed at least 22 people nationwide.
Authorities say four powerful Russian gliding bombs hit a prison in the Zaporizhiya region in southeastern Ukraine. Officials said they killed at least 17 prisoners and injured more than 80 prisoners.
Authorities in the Denipro region in central Ukraine said Russian missiles partially destroyed three-story buildings and damaged nearby medical facilities, including pregnant women’s hospitals and urban hospital wards. At least four people were killed, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman and eight were injured, officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 22 people were killed in the Russian strike across the country in 73 cities, towns and villages. “These are conscious, intentional strikes – not by chance,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram.
Trump said on Monday that he would give Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine after the three-year war, rising a 50-day deadline he gave Russian leaders two weeks ago. The move means Trump hopes to make progress by August 7-9.
Trump has repeatedly scolded Putin for talking about ending the war, but continues to bomb Ukrainian civilians. But the Kremlin has not changed its tactics.
“I’m disappointed with President Putin,” Trump said during a visit to Scotland.
Zelenskyy welcomes Trump’s move on the schedule. “Everyone needs peace – Ukraine, Europe, the United States and responsible leaders,” Zelenskyy wrote in an article on the telegram. “Everyone except Russia.”
Russia threatens wider conflict
The Kremlin retreated and Lieutenant Putin warned Trump not to “play the last game with Russia.”
“Russia is not Israel or even Iran,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy director of the country’s security commission, wrote on social platform X.
“Each new final atum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” Medvedev said.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbors, the Kremlin has warned Western supporters in Kiev that their participation may eventually expand the war to NATO countries.
“Kremlin officials continue to conceive of Russia as in direct geopolitical confrontation with the West in order to create domestic support for Ukraine’s war and future Russian aggression against NATO,” said a Washington think tank of the Washington think tank.
Attack the prison
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia fired two Iskander-M ballistic missiles in Ukraine overnight, as well as 37 Shahed strike drones and baits. It said 32 Shah drones were intercepted or neutralized by Ukrainian air defense.
According to the Ukrainian State Criminal Execution Bureau, Russian attacks near midnight attacks attacked the Billennium Kickska Correctional Centre with a gliding bomb.
The Glide bomb was a Soviet-era bomb and modified with retractable fins and guidance systems, which have been wasting for cities in eastern Ukraine, and Russian troops are trying to pierce Ukraine’s defense. The bomb carries up to 3,000 kilograms of explosives.
At least 42 inmates were hospitalized for serious injuries, while another 40, including one staff member, were injured.
The strike destroyed the prison’s restaurant and damaged administrative and segregated buildings, but the fenced fence was not reported.
Ukrainian officials condemned the attack, saying that targeting civilian infrastructure, such as prisons, was a war crime under international conventions.
The attack came three years after the explosion killed more than 50 people in the Olinifka detention center in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, and dozens of Ukrainian prisoners were killed.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling prisons. The Associated Press interviewed more than a dozen people to learn the details of the attack, including survivors, investigators and the families of the deceased. All the evidence described points them directly to Russia as the culprit. AP also obtained a United Nations domestic analysis, which found the same analysis.
Regional Governor Serhii Lysak said further Russian attacks hit communities in the Synelnykivskyi area and attacked them with FPV drones and air bombs, killing at least one person and injuring two people.
According to Lisak, Russian troops also targeted the community of Velicamokvska, killing a 75-year-old woman and injuring a 68-year-old man.
Ukraine attempts to rebel against the Russian strike by developing its own long-range drone technology, hit oil warehouses, weapons plants and destroying commercial flights.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that air defense personnel shot down 74 Ukrainian drones in several areas overnight, including 43 in the Bryansk region.
Yuri Slyusar, head of the Rostov region, said a man from the city of Salsk was killed in a drone attack that caught fire at the Salsk train station.
Officials said a cargo train set fire at Salsk station and railway traffic in Salsk was suspended. Exploding windows Broken windows In two cars on two passenger trains, passengers were evacuated.
