Russia carries out deadly air strike on Ukrainian prison
Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine's south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, authorities said. They killed at least 17 inmates and wounded more than 80 others.
In the Dnipro region of central Ukraine, authorities said Russian missiles partially destroyed a three-storey building and damaged nearby medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward.
Officials said at least four people were killed and eight injured, including a pregnant woman who was in a serious condition.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that across the country, 22 people were killed in Russian strikes on 73 cities, towns and villages. 'These were conscious, deliberate strikes — not accidental,' Mr Zelensky said on Telegram.
Mr Trump said on Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine after three years of war, moving up a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago. The move meant Mr Trump wants peace efforts to make progress by August 7-9.
He has repeatedly rebuked Mr Putin for talking about ending the war but continuing to bombard Ukrainian civilians. But the Kremlin has not changed its tactics.
'I'm disappointed in President Putin,' Mr Trump said during a visit to Scotland.
Mr Zelensky welcomed Mr Trump's move on the timeline. 'Everyone needs peace — Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and responsible leaders across the globe,' Mr Zelensky said in a post on Telegram. 'Everyone except Russia.'
Yesterday, very important words were spoken by President Trump about how the Russian leadership is wasting the world's time by talking about peace while simultaneously killing people. We all want genuine peace – dignified and lasting: Ukraine, all of Europe, the United States,… pic.twitter.com/w1HjWbXFmw
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 29, 2025
The Kremlin pushed back, however, with a top Putin lieutenant warning Mr Trump against 'playing the ultimatum game with Russia'.
'Russia isn't Israel or even Iran,' former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country's Security Council, wrote on social platform X.
'Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,' Mr Medvedev said.
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour, the Kremlin has warned Kyiv's Western backers that their involvement could end up broadening the war to Nato countries.
'Kremlin officials continue to frame Russia as in direct geopolitical confrontation with the West in order to generate domestic support for the war in Ukraine and future Russian aggression against Nato,' the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said on Monday.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight. It said 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralised by Ukrainian air defences.
The Russian attack close to midnight on Monday hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Facility with glide bombs, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.
Glide bombs, which are Soviet-era bombs retrofitted with retractable fins and guidance systems, have been laying waste to cities in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army is trying to pierce Ukrainian defences. The bombs carry up to 3,000 kilograms of explosives.
At least 42 inmates were admitted to hospital with serious injuries, while another 40 people, including one staff member, sustained various injuries.
The strike destroyed the prison's dining hall, damaged administrative and quarantine buildings, but the perimeter fence held and no escapes were reported, authorities said.
Ukrainian officials condemned the attack, saying that targeting civilian infrastructure, such as prisons, is a war crime under international conventions.
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