At least 18 killed in strikes across Ukraine as Zelenskyy meets Western allies at NATO summit

Published connected 24/06/2025 - 18:59 GMT+2•Updated 21:37

At slightest 18 civilians person been killed and almost 200 others injured successful Russian drone and rocket strikes connected Ukraine, arsenic President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks guarantees of further Western thief for his country’s efforts to repel Russian forces.

A Russian ballistic rocket onslaught connected Dnipro deed aggregate civilian sites successful nan cardinal Ukrainian metropolis astir midday connected Tuesday, sidesplitting 9 group and injuring astatine slightest 164 others, officials said.

In nan adjacent municipality of Samar, an onslaught killed 2 group and injured 11, Dnipro's location management caput Serhii Lysak wrote connected Telegram.

The barrage damaged 19 schools, 10 kindergartens, a vocational school, a euphony schoolhouse and a societal use office, arsenic good arsenic 8 aesculapian facilities, according to Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov.

One of nan blasts blew retired nan windows of a rider train carrying astir 500 people.

Russia besides shelled residential neighbourhoods and captious infrastructure crossed Ukraine's confederate Kherson region, sidesplitting 4 civilians and wounding astatine slightest eleven others, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, caput of nan location subject administration.

In nan Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, a drone onslaught precocious Monday killed 3 civilians, including a 5-year-old boy, and injured six others, section authorities said.

Among nan injured were 2 17-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy, according to officials.

Russian forces person relentlessly targeted civilian areas of Ukraine passim nan war, which is now successful its 4th year.

More than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians person been killed, according to nan United Nations.

Ukraine has besides launched long-range drones against Russia, hitting residential areas.

Zelenskyy met pinch Western leaders attending a NATO acme successful The Hague earlier connected Tuesday.

He is keen to fastener successful further subject support for Ukraine's conflict against Russia’s bigger army, as recent nonstop bid talks person delivered nary tangible advancement connected a imaginable settlement.

Key US subject commitments to Ukraine left complete from nan Biden management are expected to tally retired wrong months, according to analysts, and there is uncertainty complete whether President Donald Trump is consenting to supply more.

In a station connected Telegram, Zelenskyy said Russia requires overseas components to build its ballistic missiles and urged countries to contradict nan Kremlin entree to them by cracking down connected Russian "schemes" to get them.

"Sanctions against Russia must besides beryllium importantly strengthened," he said.

Russian aerial defence forces changeable down 20 Ukrainian drones overnight, nan Russian Defence Ministry reported connected Tuesday morning.

It said 14 were downed complete nan Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, while 2 had been flying complete nan Moscow province.

One drone slammed into a building artifact connected nan outskirts of nan Russian capital, sparking a occurrence connected its 17th floor, section Governor Andrei Vorobyov said.

He said a 34-year-old resident suffered shrapnel wounds to his limb and leg. Two different drones were changeable down connected nan attack to Moscow, according to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Air postulation was concisely halted arsenic a precaution astatine 2 awesome Moscow airports, Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo, a typical of Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said.