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Update: At least 16 killed as Russia and Ukraine trade deadly strikes; Zelenskyy says Putin seeks pretexts
Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 16 people over about 24 hours, authorities on both sides said Saturday, France 24 reported with AFP, raising the Saturday toll beyond the four deaths Ukrainian officials confirmed earlier in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy. Kyiv said Russian strikes killed at least six people in Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk — including a 17-year-old girl — while Russia said Ukrainian strikes killed people in Krasnodar and Belgorod and in occupied Zaporizhzhia. In his Saturday address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is “not preparing to end the war” and accused Vladimir Putin of always having “some pretext ready” to avoid talks, as Ukrainian drones again hit an oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region and a plant in Rostov, Zelenskyy said.
- France 24At least 16 people killed as Russia and Ukraine trade deadly air strikes
- Al JazeeraAt least 10 people killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks
- New York PostRussian attacks kill 4 across Ukraine days after Zelensky's UN plea for help ending war