Russia has intensified strikes on Ukraine, with the highest number of drones and missiles launched in a single night yet.
According to Ukrainian officials, at least twelve people, including three children, were killed and dozens injured.
Reports have it that the attack was the second large-scale assault on the country in forty-eight hours, coming a day after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv suffered one of the heaviest assaults since the start of the Russian invasion.
Saturday’s overnight strikes come as Russia ignores calls for a ceasefire.
Rescuers were working in more than thirty cities and villages after the “massive” strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement on Sunday morning.
Ukraine is again urging its allies to apply more pressure on Moscow to engage in a ceasefire.
While calling for fresh sanctions, Zelensky said without really strong pressure on the Russian leadership, the cruelty cannot be stopped.
Zelensky said “America’s silence will only encourage Putin” – an apparent effort to exert pressure on US President Donald Trump who has said the Russian leader is interested in ending the war.
Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about twenty percent of Ukrainian territory.
