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A Russian drone slammed into a residential location successful cardinal Ukraine overnight Thursday (June 5, 2025), killing 3 members of 1 family, including a one-year-old baby, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
He accused Moscow of trying to “buy clip for itself to proceed killing” and called for the West to enactment “maximum sanctions” and “pressure” connected Moscow, aft Russia has repeatedly rejected calls for a afloat and unconditional ceasefire.
A full of 5 radical were killed successful Pryluky, a metropolis successful cardinal Ukraine, including victims from 3 generations of the aforesaid family.
A section firefighting main was responding to an earlier onslaught erstwhile his ain location was deed by a Russian drone, officials said.
“His wife, girl and one-year-old grandson were killed,” Mr. Zelenskyy said.
A firefighter works astatine a tract of buildings deed by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s onslaught connected Ukraine, successful the municipality of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, successful this handout representation released June 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: via Reuters
Photos showed houses connected fire, billowing grey fume into the transportation achromatic entity arsenic rescuers battled the blaze.
A representation astatine dawn, published by the exigency services, showed a firefighter lasting successful the burned-out carcass of a residential home, the extortion gone, surrounded by charred ashes and debris.
“Russia is perpetually trying to bargain clip for itself to proceed killing. When it does not consciousness beardown capable condemnation and unit from the world, it kills again,” Mr. Zelenskyy said.
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“This is yet different crushed to enforce maximum sanctions and enactment unit together. We expect enactment from the United States, Europe, and everyone successful the satellite who tin truly assistance alteration these unspeakable circumstances,” helium added.
Escalated fighting
Fighting and aerial attacks person escalated successful caller weeks, adjacent arsenic the sides person held 2 rounds of talks successful Istanbul that they accidental are aimed astatine uncovering an extremity to the three-year war.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Wednesday (June 4, 2025) told U.S. President Donald Trump that Moscow would respond to an audacious Ukrainian drone attack that destroyed respective Russian nuclear-capable subject jets implicit the weekend, Mr. Trump said aft a telephone betwixt the pair.
Another onslaught connected the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv wounded 18 people, including 4 children, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said successful a station connected societal media.
Tens of thousands of radical person been killed, swaths of eastbound and confederate Ukraine destroyed, and millions forced to fly their homes since Russia invaded successful February 2022.
Published - June 05, 2025 04:25 p.m. IST
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