Russian glide bombs and artillery strike a Ukrainian city, killing 1

KYIV – Russian glide bombs and artillery struck a metropolis successful confederate Ukraine connected Wednesday, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and wounding 5 others arsenic Moscow forces continued regular attacks crossed the country.

The metropolis of Kherson was struck with glide bombs connected Wednesday morning, and erstwhile rescue teams arrived astatine the scene, Russian forces launched an artillery barrage, said the region's head, Oleksandr Prokudin. “This is simply a deliberate maneuver by Russia to hinder the rescue of the injured and harm doctors, rescuers, and police,” helium said.

The onslaught damaged a sports facility, a supermarket, residential buildings and civilian vehicles, Prokudin added.

The onslaught connected Kherson followed different deadly attacks successful caller days. On Palm Sunday, 2 Russian ballistic rocket deed the northeastern metropolis of Sumy adjacent the Russian border, killing 35 people and injuring much than 100 others successful the deadliest onslaught connected Ukrainian civilians this year. The Russian subject said, without offering evidence, that the onslaught targeted a gathering of elder subject officers.

The onslaught connected Sumy and different areas came adjacent arsenic Moscow and Kyiv some agreed past period to instrumentality a 30-day halt connected strikes connected vigor facilities. Both parties person differed connected the commencement clip for stopping strikes and alleged regular breaches by the different side.

Asked Wednesday if Russia is going to halt abiding by the constricted ceasefire aft 30 days, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov demurred, saying the determination volition beryllium made later.

Moscow has efficaciously refused to judge a broad ceasefire that President Donald Trump has sought and Ukraine has endorsed. Russia has made it conditional connected a halt successful Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and Western arms supplies, the demands rejected by Ukraine. Kyiv believes Moscow’s forces are gearing up for a caller offensive.

Russian forces clasp the battlefield vantage successful Ukraine, pressing attacks successful respective sectors of the 1,000-kilometer (over 600-mile) frontline, and Kyiv has warned Moscow is readying a caller violative to amended its negotiating position.

The Russian subject said it downed 26 Ukrainian drones implicit respective Russian regions aboriginal Wednesday.

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