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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n“I started waking up my wife and then there was an explosion. My daughter ended up in the hospital,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia, which denies targeting civilians, has stepped up air strikes on Ukrainian towns and cities far from the front line of the war in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At one location, rescuers spent more than three hours getting to a man trapped in rubble by cutting through the wall of a neighbouring apartment, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He talked to the emergency services during the operation and was pulled out alive, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A five-month-old baby was among the wounded, with five children hospitalized, the head of city military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, said on national television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Schools and hospitals were among the buildings damaged across 27 locations in the city, officials said.
“The attack was extremely insidious and deliberately calculated to overload the air defence system,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He posted a video of burning ruins, saying people were still trapped under the rubble of one partially-ruined residential building as of the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president said the attacks had killed a six-year-old and the boy’s mother, but later edited the post to remove reference to the mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States would start imposing tariffs and other measures on Russia “10 days from today” if Moscow showed no progress toward ending the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This is Putin’s response to Trump’s deadlines,” Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said. “The world must respond with a tribunal and maximum pressure.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The air force reported five direct missile hits and 21 drone hits in 12 locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian air defence units downed 288 drones and three cruise missiles, the air force added.
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