KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday lamented the lack of a US response to Russia\u2019s refusal to agree \u201ca full, unconditional ceasefire\u201d as two people were killed in Moscow\u2019s latest aerial bombardment.
\nRussia mounted a \u201cmassive\u201d missile and drone attack on Ukraine that also wounded seven people, Zelensky said, warning that Moscow was stepping up its aerial attacks.
\nUkraine has agreed to an unconditional truce in the more than three-year-long war proposed by the United States but Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to do so.
\n\u201cWe are waiting for the United States to respond \u2014 so far there has been no response,\u201d said Zelensky.
\nRussia claimed the capture of a village in Ukraine\u2019s Sumy region in a rare cross-border advance, but Ukraine branded that as \u201cdisinformation.\u201d
\nEarlier, Russia \u201claunched a massive nationwide attack on Ukraine using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones,\u201d said Ukraine\u2019s first deputy prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
\nZelensky said \u201cthe number of Russian air attacks is increasing,\u201d which he said proved that \u201cthe pressure on Russia is still insufficient.\u201d
\nIn Kyiv, explosions were heard in the night and a smoke rose up from the city on Sunday morning.
\nOne person was killed and three people were wounded, the head of the city\u2019s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, wrote on social media.
\nKyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that \u201cthe body of a man killed in an enemy attack was discovered in Darnytsia district.\u201d
\nA missile strike partially destroyed a building housing state foreign-language broadcasters, the Russian-language Freedom television channel reported, saying that its newsroom had been destroyed.
\nEmergency services said that fires broke out in non-residential buildings in Kyiv. In a nearby region, a man was burned when an attack sparked a house fire, the head of the military administration said.
\nRussia attacked Ukraine with 23 cruise and ballistic missiles and 109 drones during the night, the Ukrainian air force said.
\nThe air force said it shot down 13 of the missiles and 40 drones while 54 others caused no damage.
\nIn the southern Kherson region, a drone killed a 59-year-old man, while in the northeastern Kharkiv region, near the border with Russia, two people were wounded in an aerial bomb attack, regional officials said.
\nIn the western region of Khmelnytsky, authorities said air defenses destroyed a missile but falling fragments damaged a house and wounded a woman.
\nOver the past week, Russia has launched more than 1,460 guided aerial bombs, nearly 670 attack drones, and over 30 missiles of various types on Ukraine, Zelensky said.
\nRussia\u2019s defense ministry said troops \u201cliberated\u201d the village of Basivka, close to the border with Russia\u2019s Kursk region. Ukraine quickly rejected the report.
\n\u201cThe enemy continues its disinformation campaign regarding the seizure of settlements in Sumy region or the breakthrough of the border,\u201d Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, told AFP.
\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron echoed Zelensky\u2019s calls for a stronger response to Russia.
\n\u201cA ceasefire is needed as soon as possible. And strong action if Russia continues to try to buy time and refuse peace,\u201d Macron said on X on Sunday.
\nRussia continues \u201cto murder children and civilians,\u201d he added.
\nThe latest attacks came two days after a missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig killed 18 people including nine children.
\nThe United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, denounced Russia\u2019s \u201creckless disregard\u201d for human life in using \u201can explosive weapon with wide area effects.\u201d
\nRussia on Sunday said it had struck a central artillery base and enterprises involved in producing drones.
\nIt accused Ukraine of striking its energy infrastructure including a gas distribution facility in the Voronezh region.
\nUS President Donald Trump is pushing the two sides to agree a partial ceasefire, but has so far failed to broker an accord acceptable to both sides.
\nThe United States is also seeking better ties with Russia and Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev in an interview with state television said that the next US-Russian contacts could be \u201cnext week,\u201d Russian news agencies reported.
\nDmitriev last week became the most senior Russian official to visit Washington since Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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