Seventeen people were killed and 80 injured in a Russian bomb attack on a penal colony in southeastern Ukraine overnight, an official said. This attack came hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would shorten a deadline for Vladimir Putin to make peace.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a dozen more were wounded in the attack on the front-line Zaporizhzhia region, describing the bombing as “deliberate.”
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On X (formerly Twitter), he wrote, “The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility.” “And this was done after a completely clear position was voiced by the United States.”
Zelenskiy added that a total of 22 people were killed in overnight strikes by Russia, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman who died in a missile strike on a hospital in another southeastern region.
Russia has stepped up airstrikes far behind the front line of its full-scale invasion, now in its fourth year, as it presses ahead on the battlefield with grinding gains.
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Trump, underscoring his frustration with Putin, said on Monday he would give 10 or 12 days for Russia to make progress towards ending the war.
In a statement, Ukraine’s justice ministry said the prison’s dining hall had been destroyed and other parts damaged in a strike that involved four high-explosive aerial bombs and wounded 42 people.
