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Sixteen people killed in Russian strike on Ukraine prison, officials say Strikes overnight on Ukraine kill 22, says Zelenskyy, as Trump sets new Russia deadline
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Another four people were killed in an attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region, officials said Direct hit on prison in Bilenke kills 17, officials say, with three killed at hospital in Kaminanske, as Kyiv hopes for action against Moscow
Russian overnight strikes on the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia in south-western Ukraine killed 16 and injured at least 35 people at a correctional facility, local officials said. Europe live – latest updates
Writing on the Telegram messaging app, governor Ivan Fedorov said the penitentiary facility’s buildings had been destroyed and nearby private homes damaged. Russian airstrikes on Ukraine killed 22 people overnight, said the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and injured another 85, a day after Donald Trump said he was setting a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russia to make progress towards ending the war.
Four people were also killed and more wounded in attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to regional government officials. The worst death toll was at a prison facility in the town of Bilenke in the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia, which appeared to have taken a direct hit from a guided air bomb. Local authorities said 17 people died and dozens sustained injuries. A hospital in the city of Kamianske in the Dnipropetrovsk region was also hit, killing three people including a 23-year-old pregnant woman, Zelenskyy said.
The death toll makes it one of the deadliest attacks on Ukraine in recent months. The Zaporizhzhia regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, said Russian forces launched eight strikes against the region, with four aerial bombs used against the prison in Bilenke, destroying the facility and damaging nearby houses. Video footage from the aftermath of the attack showed part of the brick prison building had collapsed and broken glass and debris were scattered on the ground.
Moscow’s forces have regularly attacked Zaporizhzhia, using drones, missiles and aerial bombs, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “It was a deliberate strike, targeted, not accidental. The Russians could not have been unaware that they were hitting civilians in this penal colony. Many people died, another 43 were injured, and among them there are people with very serious injuries,” Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel.
Fedorov said Russian forces launched eight strikes on the Zaporizhzhia district, reportedly using high-explosive aerial bombs. Zelenskyy said only harsh measures against Moscow could stop the killing, and said he welcomed Trump’s recent harsher rhetoric towards the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
More details soon … “Every murder of our people by the Russians, every Russian strike, when there could have been a ceasefire long ago if Russia had not refused – all this shows that Moscow deserves very tough, truly painful, and therefore fair and effective sanctions pressure. They must be forced to stop the killings and make peace,” Zelenskyy wrote.
On Monday, during talks with Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, Trump said he was going to cut a previous 50-day deadline for Putin to “about 10 or 12 days”, citing “disappointment” with the Russian president over a lack of progress.
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“We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever. You have bodies lying all over the street, and I say that’s not the way to do it. So we’ll see what happens with that,” the US president said.
In Kyiv, there is hope that the new tough words from Trump could be followed up with concrete action, including tougher sanctions on Russia and continued military and intelligence support for Ukraine.