Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the heart of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing 34 people and wounding 117 in the deadliest strike on Ukraine this year, officials said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded a tough international response against Russia over the attack, which came with US President Donald Trump’s push to rapidly end the war struggling to make a breakthrough.
Dead bodies were strewn on the ground in the middle of a city street near a destroyed bus and burnt-out cars in a video posted by Mr Zelensky on social media.
“Only scoundrels can act like this. Taking the lives of ordinary people,” he wrote on social media.
“And…