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News.com.au
2 hours ago
- News.com.au
Russia kills 25 in Ukraine, as Kremlin says 'committed' to peace
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it wanted to pursue peace in Ukraine hours after mounting attacks that killed at least 25 people, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman and more than a dozen prison inmates. The strikes on several regions came hours after US President Donald Trump issued Moscow with a new deadline to end its grinding invasion of Ukraine -- now in its fourth year -- or face tough new sanctions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of purposefully targeting a prison in the Zaporizhzhia region -- that Russia claims as its own -- killing 16 people and wounding more than 40 others. "It was a deliberate strike, intentional, not accidental. The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility," Zelensky said on social media in response. The Kremlin denied that claim. "The Russian army does not strike civilian targets," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, including from AFP. Peskov added that Moscow had "taken note" of Trump's new deadline and told journalists that it remained "committed to the peace process to resolve the conflict around Ukraine and secure our interests." - 'War crimes' - Ukraine's justice ministry said Moscow's forces hit the prison with four glide bombs, while police said 16 inmates were killed and 43 were wounded. Bricks and debris were strewn on the ground around buildings with blown-out windows, according to images released by the ministry. The facility's perimeter was intact and there was no threat that inmates would escape, it added. Rescue workers were seen searching for survivors in pictures released by the region's emergency services. A senior Ukrainian source said that 274 people were serving sentences in the Bilenkivska facility, where 30 people worked. The source added there were no Russian war prisoners being held at the centre. Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said the Zaporizhzhia attack was further evidence of Russian "war crimes". "People held in places of detention do not lose their right to life and protection," he wrote on social media. In addition to the glide bomb attack, the Ukrainian air force said that Russia had launched 37 drones and two missiles overnight, adding that its air defence systems had downed 32 of the drones. Zelensky said that among the separate attacks, Russian forces had targeted a hospital in the town of the Kamyanske in the Dnipropetrovsk region. - Hospital targeted - "Three people were killed in the attack, including a pregnant woman. Her name was Diana. She was only 23-years-old," Zelensky said. Separate strikes in the eastern Kharkiv region that borders Russia killed six people, regional authorities said. In the southern Russian region of Rostov, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person, the region's acting governor said. Kyiv has been trying to repel Russia's summer offensive, which has made fresh advances into areas largely spared since the start of the invasion in 2022. The Russian defence ministry claimed fresh advances across the sprawling front line on Tuesday, saying its forces had taken control of two more villages -- one in the Donetsk region, and another in the Zaporizhzhia region. The prison strike on Tuesday came on the three-year anniversary of a attack on another detention facility in occupied Ukrainian territory that Kyiv blamed on Moscow and that was reported to have killed dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers. Ukraine and Russia blamed each other for the strike over the night of July 29 three years ago on the detention centre in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, which the Kremlin says is part of Russia. Ukraine says that dozens of its soldiers who laid down their arms after a long Russian siege of the port city of Mariupol were killed in that attack on the Olenivka detention facility.
Sky News AU
3 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Trump makes world leaders look ‘impotent' as US border crossings ‘virtually' zero
Sky News contributor Kosha Gada discusses the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. 'Border crossings are virtually zero, and we all know that immigration has really been a debacle for Western countries over the last half-century,' Ms Gada told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'He's laying that bare, he's showing that it can be turned around, and it's just making the rest of the world leaders look totally impotent and feckless that they're not able to do this. 'Their populations are crying out for it.'
Sky News AU
4 hours ago
- Sky News AU
‘Deliciously awkward': Journalist pits Trump versus Starmer over government online censorship
Sky News host James Macpherson discusses United States President Donald Trump's 'awkward' confrontation with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer over government censorship and his site Truth Social. 'Trump was in Scotland overnight for a meeting with UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer and in a deliciously awkward 70-minute joint press conference, Trump did a better job holding Starmer's Labour government to account than the UK opposition have done all year,' Mr Macpherson said. 'For instance, it is well known Starmer's Labour government is cracking down on free speech … so naturally a journalist asked Donald Trump if he was worried the British government might censor him, and Trump, never one to waste a theatrical moment, delivered this gem.'
