Ukraine dwell ticker: Peskow calls a dialog between Putin and Witkoff “useful” | EUROtoday

On Apr 14, 2025

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After the extreme Russian rocket strike in opposition to the town of Sumy within the northeast of Ukraine, the variety of deaths rose to not less than 31. Two kids are among the many useless, President Wolodymyr Selenskyj mentioned within the early afternoon at Telegram. He expressed his condolences to the kin. There are additionally many kids among the many greater than 80 accidents. “Everyone gets the necessary help,” he mentioned.

The Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko had beforehand spoken of not less than 21 deaths. Many folks have been additionally injured in the course of the road, in vehicles and public transport in addition to in homes, he mentioned on Telegram. Klymenko accused Russia of a focused assault on civilians.

President Wolodymyr Selenskyj had beforehand spoken of a “terrible rocket attack” through which “dozens of dead and injured” had existed. “”And that in a day when folks go to church: on Palm Sunday“.

Sumy is 50 kilometers behind the border between Ukraine and Russia. Kyiv has been warning of a doable Russian offensive within the area for weeks. After Russian troops had pushed the Ukrainian army again from the neighboring Russian area of Kursk, the town of Sumy has been attacked a number of instances prior to now few weeks. The Russian military additionally reported terrain positive aspects.

At first there was no assertion on the assaults from Russia. The head of the Ukrainian Center to fight disinformation, Andrij Kowalenko, identified that the assault on Sumy occurred instantly after visiting the US specialist Steve Witkoff in Moscow: “Russia builds this whole so -called diplomacy … on attacks on civilians”wrote Kowalenko on the quick message service Telegram. Witkoff had had talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia on Friday about paths to a peace settlement for Ukraine.

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