By Greg Sullivan and Aliaksandr Kryrytski, Bloomberg News
Ukraine said that more than two boxes were killed and scored wounds after the Russian missiles hit the city of Sumy, days after the American envoy Steve Witkoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the end of the war.
Two ballistic missiles arrived in the city center, in the northeast of Ukraine, on Palmas Hand Sunday, said the city’s regional administration on its telegram channel.
At least 32 people were killed, including two children, and more than 80 injured, according to the Ukraine Ministry of Emergency. The missile strikes arrived as many people were in the streets and traveled in cars and in public transport, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy on social networks.
At least one of the missiles was equipped with cluster ammunition to maximize the casualties, said Andriy Yermak, the main help to Zenskyy, on Telegram. The missiles involved in the most mortar in Russia of 2025 so far were fired from the regions of Kursk and Voronezh of Russia, said Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukraine Military Intelligence Agency, in Telegram.
It was said that projectiles were short-range ballistic missiles ISKANDER-M/KN-23 supplied by North Korea, which is believed to have been since the late 2023.
“The world must respond firmly. The United States, Europe, all in the world that want this war and these murders end,” Zenskyy said on social networks. “Russia wants exactly this type of terror and is dragging this war.”
The missile attack in the city with a population before the war of approximately 275,000 came the day when Christians celebrated the beginning of Holy Week, and the president of the days, Donald Trump, increased the pressure on Russia in his attempt to ensure a high fire.
Trump had said Friday on his social media platform that “Russia has to move” and lamented the number of the dead of the war, now in his fourth year. Witkoff, who has become a key intermediary in Ukraine for Trump’s attempts to end the fighting, traveled to St. Petersburg the same day for his third meeting with Putin.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said conversations with the American envoy were “an additional step” to a meeting between Trump and Putin, which said it would happen in the “due time”, although a preparation was still needed.
Peskov said in an interview-excerptts or that they were published on Sunday by state television reporter Pavel Zarubin, that dialogue between the United States and Russia was progressing “really well”, but it was difficult to restore the relationships from nothing practical.
Negotiations on a high fire, which Trump predicted that he could achieve after its inauguration in January, have stagnated after the conversations in Saudi Arabia last month. Russia demands the reconnection of one of its largest state banks to the Swift International Messenger System that is under the jurisdiction of the European Union as a condition to accept a negotiated truce in the United States in the Black Sea.
“Now is the second month that Putin has been ignoring the US proposal for a high and unconditional fire,” Zenskyy said on Telegram. “Unfortunately, in Moscow they are convinced that they can continue killing with impunity.”
Ukraine and Russia have accused of violating a 30 -day moratorium on strikes against the energy infrastructure that expires on April 18.
Sunday’s strike in Russia in Sumy follows one earlier in Kryvih Rih in downtown Ukraine, the hometown of Zensky, which killed at least 20 people, including nine children.
Separately, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Sunday that it had knocked down an Ukrainian F-16 combat plane. Zenskyy said on Saturday that the 26 -year -old pilot of the plane was killed in combat, but that the authorities were investigating what had happened, in the second known public instance of Ukraine losing that type of Saince pilot of airplanes.
The forces of Ukraine attacked the Belgorod region of Russia, just above the border of the nations, with 78 drones on the last day, said the governor of the area, Vyacheslav Gladkov, in his telegram channel.
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