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World leaders condemned a Russian missile strike on Ukraine on Sunday, which was one of the most deadly attacks in the months, while US President Donald Trump called it a “terrible thing” and a “mistake”.
Ukrainian officials said two ballistic missiles hit the center of the northeastern city of Sumi, close to the Russian border on Sunday morning, killing at least 34 people and more than 100 others died.
US President Envoy Steve Witcoff went on strike two days after the visit to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin and to carry out efforts to end the war.
“I think it was terrible. And I was told that they made a mistake. But I think it’s a terrible thing. I think the whole war is a terrible thing,” US President Trump told reporters at the Board Air Force One while returning to Washington on Sunday evening.
To clarify what they mean by “mistake”, Trump said “he made a mistake … you are going to ask him” – without specifying whom he or what he was referring to.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio called the attack “frightening” and “a tragic reminder of why President Trump and his administration are making so much time and effort in an attempt to end this war and achieve sustainable peace”.
Ukraine President Volodmi Zelanski on Sunday urged Trump to visit his country to better understand the devastation caused by Russia’s invasion.
According to an interview of an interview on CBS, “Please, before any decision, forms of any kind of talks, people, citizens, warriors, hospitals, churches, churches, children destroyed or dead,”.
Zelansky insisted that the attack took place on Palm Sunday, a major Christian feast.
“Only a completely deranged scum can do something like this,” he said at his Sunday evening address.
Emergency services stated that missiles killed 34 people, including two children, and 117 were injured, including 15 children.
People ran to cover between burning cars and the dead were covered in silver sheets in the scene where the rescue team worked through the rubble of a building near a destroyed trolleybus.
Zelansky said that eight injured people were in critical condition.
He said that the Russian attack damaged a total of 20 buildings, including a university, five apartment buildings, cafes, shops and district courts.
United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres was “deeply worried and shocked” by the strike, which exposed the devastating pattern of similar attacks on Ukrainian cities and towns in recent weeks, said his spokesperson Stephen Duzeric.
‘Many corpses’
Curilo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Guru military intelligence, said on Telegram that Russia used two Iskander -M/KN -23 ballistic missiles on Sumi.
A witness told AFP that he made two explosions.
“Many people were very badly injured. A lot of corpses,” he said, struggling to speak.
This was the second Russian attack this month, which was the cause of a large civilian death count. At least 18 people, including nine children, died in an attack on Zelansky’s home city of Chryvy Rig.
The Trump is emphasizing for a quick end for war, the United States has a direct conversation with Russia despite its incredible attacks on Ukraine.
Washington has also interacted with Ukrainian authorities on a potential Trus, while European nations are discussing a military deployment to strengthen any Ukraine ceasefire.
Kiev has previously agreed to a US-produced unconditional ceasefire, but Moscow has turned it down.
Zelancesi asked the United States and Europe to give Russia a “strong response”, saying: “Talking never prevented ballistic missiles and bombs.”
Trump has earlier raised anger in Russia for “Bombing Like Crazy” in Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron said the strike on Sumi showed Russia’s “clear disregard for human life, international law and diplomatic efforts of President Trump”.
The British Prime Minister Kir Stmper said he was “frightening” from the attack, which was described by Russia as the “Coward” Act by Russia.
Germany’s Chancellor-in-Vetting Frederick Merz described it as a “serious war crime, intentional and intention”.
Russia has continuously attacked Ukraine in recent weeks.
Sumi is under pressure because Moscow pushed back several soldiers of Ukraine from its cushion region inside Russia, inside Russia.
Kiev has warned for weeks that Moscow can mount an aggressive mount on the city.
Russia began its partially attack through the Sumi region and captured parts of it before the Ukrainian forces pushed back.
On Sunday, Russia said it captured another village in the Donnetsk region of East Ukraine.
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