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Vladimir Putin ignored Donald Trump’s plea to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine by launching more deadly drone strikes on Ukraine during the Pope’s funeral.
The Russian attacks did not pause for Pope Francis’s ceremony, with attacks underway even as the US president reportedly met Zelensky in Rome ahead of the funeral, with at least six regions targeted.
One strike hit a residential building in Kamianske in Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one man and wounding four, including an 11-year-old girl – the latest of evidently deliberate strikes at civilians which terrorised local children.
A resident said: ‘I heard the explosion, ran outside, everything was on fire, many people were screaming. We started to panic and ran to the forest. The children were very scared. Two windows in our house were broken.’
Separately, a video showed a fireball explosion on the outskirts of Dnipro, and Kropyvnytskyi was also hit by drones.
Kharkiv – Ukraine’s second city – was attacked with a boy, 14, wounded from a Shahed drone strike.
Reports said Kyiv region was under siege from drones as Volodymyr Zelensky attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, where he was due to speak to other world leaders over a peace agreement.
Putin’s relentless attacks on Ukraine have only fueled suspicions that – despite assurances to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Friday – he has little intention of reaching a ceasefire and peace.
At the same time, Ukraine was plunged into paralysis by massive terminal failure across the country.
Apple and Google Pay were unavailable, and banking services, including all banking apps, plus private delivery systems, were not working.
Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, said Putin’s attacks showed he was not interested in peace.
‘It is time to respond to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine with renewed American power and provide our ally with the military support it needs to win for freedom,’ he said.
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