President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns the ‘horrific assaults’ and urges allies to spice up Ukraine’s air defences.
Printed On 29 Jun 2026
Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine have killed a minimum of eight individuals and wounded 34 others, Ukrainian authorities say, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the “horrific assaults”.
Zelenskyy mentioned on Monday that a minimum of 5 individuals had been killed and 28 wounded in a Russian missile assault on Dnipro metropolis, an industrial hub round 100 km (62 miles) from the entrance line, that’s commonly focused by Russian forces.
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Regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha mentioned in a Telegram message that one of many victims was a 13-year-old woman. He posted pictures of a constructing with shattered home windows and a blurred photograph of a physique mendacity close to a stairwell.
“Individuals have traumatic mind accidents, shrapnel wounds, fractures and blast trauma,” he mentioned.
No less than three individuals had been killed and 6 others injured, together with a toddler, in a drone assault on Zaporizhzhia, Zelenskyy mentioned. Town is round 30km from the entrance line and the executive capital of the area Russia claims as annexed territory however doesn’t totally management.
The Ukrainian president mentioned Russia additionally carried out strikes within the Sumy, Odesa, Chernihiv, Kherson and Kharkiv areas.
The Kremlin mentioned on Monday that Russia’s place on a peace deal is unchanged since 2024, when President Vladimir Putin mentioned that Kyiv’s forces needed to withdraw from 4 areas Moscow says are its personal and publicly drop its plans to hitch NATO.
Putin mentioned in a tv interview on the weekend that Russia would press forward with its intention of totally controlling these areas, rejecting what he mentioned was a brand new Ukrainian proposal to reduce the preventing.
Putin mentioned Kyiv had proposed a mutual halt to long-range strikes and that preventing needs to be confined to the 4 areas, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
