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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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.”
Holly Bancroft14 July 2024 11:25
Zelensky 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.”
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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.
Holly Bancroft14 July 2024 10:34
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
Tensions 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.
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