Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelensky calls for more long-range weapons after seven killed in Zaporizhzhia
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his call for more long-range weapons after seven people were killed in a Russian strike.
The Russian attack on the town of Vilniansk, near the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, also injured 31 others, Ukrainian officials said.
“Our cities and communities suffer daily from such Russian strikes,” Mr Zelensky said after the attack which left two children dead.
But he added that there were “ways to overcome this”, including “destroying Russian missile launchers, striking with real long-range capability and increasing the number of modern air defence systems”.
Western allies have already supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons – including Scalp missiles from France, Storm Shadow from the UK and ATACMS from the US – as well as US-made Patriot air defence systems.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has refused to comment on Donald Trump’s claim he would “settle the war” in Ukraine if he was re-elected in November.
Trump made the claim during Thursday’s US presidential debate, where he and president Joe Biden competed to appear tougher on foreign policy.
7 killed and dozens wounded after missiles slammed into a town in southern Ukraine, officials say
Russian missiles slammed into a town in southern Ukraine, killing seven civilians, including children, and wounding dozens, local authorities reported.
Ukrainian officials published photos of bodies stretched out under picnic blankets in a park in Vilniansk, and deep craters in the blackened earth next to the charred, twisted remains of a building.
At least 38 people were wounded in Saturday evening’s attack, authorities said, and declared a day of mourning Sunday. Vilniansk is in the Zaporizhzhia region, less than 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the local capital and north of the front lines, as Russian forces continue to occupy part of the province.
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Holly Evans30 June 2024 23:00
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged support for Ukraine, EU and NATO in his farewell speech
Long-serving Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged his country to support Ukraine and international cooperation in his final address to his compatriots Sunday, as an inward-looking new government is set to take over the Netherlands in two days.
“It is crucial that our country is embedded in the European Union and NATO. Together we are stronger than alone. Especially now,” the 57-year-old Rutte said from his office in The Hague.
After leading the country for 14 years, he will take his experience with consensus-building to Brussels, where he will take over as NATO’s new secretary-general later this year.
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Holly Evans30 June 2024 21:30
Glide bombs cause fatalities as Ukraine scale up evacuation efforts
Drone footage from Ukraine’s military released Sunday has shown what appears to be bodies in a civilian area in the embattled eastern town of Toretsk, which has come under heavy Russian bombardment in recent days.
The attacks in the war-torn Donetsk region have prompted a scaled-up evacuation effort by Ukrainian rescue services. Local officials said that powerful Russian glide bombs have also been used in the town, the latest eastern front flash point as Russian attacks continue to put stretched Ukrainian front-line units on the defensive.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Russia had dropped more than 800 glide bombs in Ukraine in the past week alone.
“Ukraine needs the necessary means to destroy the carriers of these bombs, including Russian combat aircraft, wherever they are. This step is essential,” he wrote in an online post.
Holly Evans30 June 2024 19:07
Russia plans to send children to North Korea
Russia is planning to send children to a summer camp in North Korea in late July, according to state news agency TASS.
This follows the signing of a strategic deal by Russia and North Korea on 19 June.
Groups of children accompanied by counsellors will attend the camps in North Korea’s Sondovon.
“We are now planning joint camp shifts… We are planning children’s exchanges,” Grigory Gurov, head of the Russian youth group Movement of the First, said, according to The Kyiv Independent.
Joe Middleton30 June 2024 16:46
Russia takes over two villages in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, RIA says
Russian forces have taken over the villages of Spirne and Novooleksandrivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the Russian news agency RIA quoted Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Sunday.
Alexander Butler30 June 2024 13:00
Zelensky calls for more aid after Russian strike kills seven
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his call for more long-range weapons after seven people were killed in a Russian strike.
The Russian attack on the town of Vilniansk, near the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, also injured 31 others, Ukrainian officials said.
“Our cities and communities suffer daily from such Russian strikes,” Mr Zelensky said after the attack which left two children dead.
But he added that there were “ways to overcome this”, including “destroying Russian missile launchers, striking with real long-range capability and increasing the number of modern air defence systems”.
Alexander Butler30 June 2024 09:28
Russia says four firefighters injured in Ukraine shelling of Donetsk
Four employees of Russia’s ministry of emergency situations were injured in Ukraine’s shelling of the Donetsk region, the ministry said on Sunday.
“In the Petrovsky district, department firefighters (the employees) were extinguishing a fire that occurred after (Ukrainian) shelling,” the ministry said on the Telegram messaging app. “There was an alert for a new artillery strike. The shelling hit them as they were evacuating.”
Donetsk is one of four regions in Ukraine’s east and south that Russia claimed to have annexed in late 2022 in a move condemned as illegal by most countries at the UN General Assembly. Russia does not fully control any of the four regions.
Alexander Butler30 June 2024 09:06
Russia plans to send children to North Korea
Russia is planning to send children to a summer camp in North Korea in late July, according to state news agency TASS.
This follows the signing of a strategic deal by Russia and North Korea on 19 June.
Groups of children accompanied by counsellors will attend the camps in North Korea’s Sondovon.
“We are now planning joint camp shifts… We are planning children’s exchanges,” Grigory Gurov, head of the Russian youth group Movement of the First, said, according to The Kyiv Independent.
Vishwam Sankaran30 June 2024 07:30
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