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Russian forces launched a “double tap” missile attack on a small town near Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv on Saturday.
Prosecutors said that one of the missile attacks was targeted at the railway station in Budy, southwest of Kharkiv. A second missile hit the area after rescue teams arrived, they said.
Two people, an emergency services official and a police officer, were reportedly killed in the attack. Officials also reported four dead in a series of attacks in the Donetsk region and two more in the southern Kherson region.
A further 25 people have been injured in the incidents, including two children. It comes as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the shooting of former US president Donald Trump.
He said there was “no justification” for such violence and that he was “relieved” that Trump was safe and wished him “a speedy recovery”.
Mr Zelensky has recently visited Ireland after a trip to Washington for the Nato summit.
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Thanks for following along with our coverage, we are pausing the live blog for now.
Here is the latest update on Russian shelling in the Kherson region:
“Russian shelling of Ukraine killed three people on Saturday, officials said, as the two countries exchanged drone attacks, one of which set ablaze a Russian oil depot.
Two people died in Ukraine’s partly occupied Kherson region and two were wounded in the attack close to the regional capital, said Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin. Another person died Saturday afternoon and 16 were wounded in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, according to Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.
An oil depot in the Tsimlyansky district, deep inside Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, was set ablaze in the early hours of Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack — the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region.”
Shelling kills 3 in Ukraine as a drone attack sparks fire at an oil depot in Russia
Russian shelling of Ukraine has killed three people as the two countries exchanged drone attacks, one of which set ablaze a Russian oil depot
Holly Bancroft14 July 2024 11:25 1720959207Recap: Ukraine urges ICC to investigate strike on Kyiv children’s hospital as crime against humanity
Ukraine’s top prosecutor has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Russia over a missile strike on a children’s hospital that killed or wounded dozens of doctors and civilians.
Prosecutor general Andriy Kostin, who was in The Hague where the ICC is based, for meetings with legal officials, said the strike was worth “lifting” to the court in part because Kyiv seeks to demonstrate the systematic nature of Russia’s attack on civilians.
“For the sake of international justice, cases like the intentional attack on the biggest child hospital in Kyiv (are) worth lifting to the ICC,” he said.
At least 44 people were killed and around 200 wounded by the Russian strikes on Monday in what one United Nations aid worker described as “one of the worst attacks” they had seen since February 2022, when the full-scale invasion began.
The attacks hit cities across the country, killing 10 in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, but three quarters of the fatalities came from the capital.
Ukraine urges ICC to investigate strike on Kyiv children’s hospital
Ukrainian prosecutor general Andriy Kostin says an investigation into the attack could help prove Russia’s allegedly systematic targeting of civilians in Ukraine
Holly Bancroft14 July 2024 13:13 1720956051Zelensky says he is ‘appalled’ by attack on Donald Trump
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the shooting of former US president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
Mr Zelensky wrote on X: “I am appalled to learn about the shooting of former US president Donald trump at his rally in Pennsylvania. Such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world. Never should violence prevail.”
Mr Zelensky added he was “relieved” that Trump, who has frequently criticised U.S. military aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion, was safe and wished him “a speedy recovery”.
“I extend my wishes for strength to everyone who is horrified by this event. I wish America emerges stronger from this.”
The scene of Russian missile attack on village of Budy in Kharkiv region
Two people have died after Russian missile attacks on a village outside of Kharkiv. Reuters photographers captured the scene in Budy, a small town in the Kharkiv region, after the attack on Saturday. One view shows the site of a missle strike, another shows a damaged car, and one man shows the destruction of his home.
Two dead in Russian ‘double tap’ attack on town near Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Russian forces launched a “double tap” missile attack on Saturday on a small town near Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people, an emergency services official and a police officer, officials said.
Officials also reported four dead in a series of attacks in Donetsk region to the southeast and two more in southern Kherson region.
Prosecutors said the mid-afternoon missile attack targeted the railway station in Budy, southwest of Kharkiv. After rescue teams arrived, a second missile hit the area.
They said 25 people were injured in the incidents, including two children.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the head of the Kharkiv district emergency services was killed, along with a police officer from a rapid reaction unit. Among the injured were three emergency workers, a policeman and about 20 civilians.
Holly Bancroft14 July 2024 10:18 1720944151Tensions easing on the Ukraine-Belarus border, says Lukashenko
Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko has said he hopes there will not be any tensions at the country’s border with Ukraine.
During a visit to troops in the border region, he suggested tensions are easing after Ukraine withdrew some troops from the area, according to state news agency BelTA.
He said: “Now we have no complications with the Ukrainians, and I hope that there won’t be any.”
Lukashenko, who is an ally of Russia’s President Putin, has also announced the withdrawal of Belarusian troops from the border.
China lashes out after Nato says it is ‘decisive enabler’ of Ukraine war
China lashes out after Nato says it is ‘decisive enabler’ of Ukraine war
Nato members urge China to ‘cease all material and political support to Russia’s war effort’
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Tom Watling14 July 2024 06:00 1720926000‘The whole room was covered in blood’: Inside the Russian missile strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital
‘The room was covered in blood’: Inside Russian strike on Kyiv children’s hospital
Warning, distressing content: A mother who was waiting with her eight-year-old daughter for surgery in the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv tells Tom Watling of her terrifying experience as Russia fired multiple missiles at the complex
Tom Watling14 July 2024 04:00 1720918800Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko issues plea for air defences after ‘very painful’ Russian attack on hospitals
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Kyiv mayor says Ukraine needs air defences now more than ever after 29 civilians were killed during sweeping Russian missile strikes across the capital
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