KIEV (Reuters)-A Russian air strike killed 23 civilians who were receiving their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Kiev’s allies to increase the pressure on Moscow to close the war.
Russian troops have made an offensive in much of the Donetsk region in the east of the country, while diplomatic efforts to end the three and a half year war are practically paralyzed.
Zelenskiy said a guided bomb hit Yarova’s village, about 24 km from the city of Sloviansk and several kilometers behind the front line.
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“Directly about people. Common civilians. Just as the pensions were being paid,” he wrote at X.
The president posted video images showing bodies scattered on the floor and wreckage. Twenty -three people died and 18 others were injured, interior minister Ihor Klymenko said.
“The world should not remain silent,” said Zelenskiy. “The world should not remain inactive. A response from the United States is required. A response from Europe is required. A response from the G20 is required.”
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Russia did not immediately comment on Zelenskiy’s lines. Moscow denies target civilian target, but tens of thousands of people died since their large -scale invasion in February 2022.
Ukraine Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said the attack was “another confirmation of systemic terror against Ukraine’s civilian population.”
(Report by Yulia Dysa)
