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A Russian strike on Tuesday killed at least 24 people during the distribution of pension payments in a first -line city in East Ukraine, threatened by Moscow’s impulse to capture the entire industrial region, authorities said on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, published an amateur video that showed several corpses scattered on the ground, and a burned minivan near a patio of recreation, the images that France Presse could not independently verify.

“A brutally wild air attack with an air bomb in the rural settlement of Yarova in the Donetsk region. Directly on people. Common civilians. At the same time when pensions were being disbursed,” Zelenskyy wrote.

The News journalists in eastern Ukraine saw the mourners crying out of a morgue where the staff had established at least 13 bodies in black body bags.

The explosion killed at least 24 people and wounded another 19, said the emergency service of Ukraine. A spokesman for the Ukraine postal network, UCRPOSHTA, confirmed to the News that one of his vehicles was damaged in the attack and his department head, identified as Yulia, had been hospitalized. UCRPOSHTA, which provides public services in first -line regions, said he would change how he distributes basic pensions and services there.

The Ukrainian army said that Moscow had dropped a sliding bomb. These weapons are fixed with wings to help them slide more than dozens of miles. They are part of an arsenal developed by Russia to get more deeply in the Ukrainian territory and stretch the front line.

Ukraine Attorney General said he had launched a war crime investigation. Andrii Sybiha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, described the strike “Bárbara” and an “atrocious crime.”

There were no immediate comments from Moscow or Kremlin on the strike.

Russia has been constantly advancing in the East Region of Donetsk for months, concentrating its fire power in the territory and displaying troops from other parts of the front line, kyiv said. Moscow has claimed the industrial region as part of Russia despite not having total control over it. Donetsk authorities have been appealing civilians to flee from the fighting since the first days of Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

kyiv says that the Kremlin has concentrated 100,000 troops in a key part of the front line for a new offensive. Yarova is almost five miles from the front line and had a population before the war of around 1,900 people.

The Ukrainian commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrsky said this week that the Russian forces exceeded the Ukrainian troops in some areas of the front, and six times in the regions where Moscow has concentrated its forces.

Zelenskyy urged Ukraine allies to issue an response to the attack and said that “strong actions are needed for Russia to stop bringing death.” Sybiha said that Ukraine was contacting his allies to inform them of the strike.

“A response from the United States is needed. A response from Europe is needed. A G20 response is needed,” said Zelenskyy.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, says he has tried to find a way to finish the war in recent weeks, but he has little to show for his efforts. Recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaskafollowed by a meeting with Zelenskyy and other European leaders In the White House. Trump recently told News themezone that he is still committed to finding a peaceful solution to the conflict.

“I’ve been seeing it, I’ve been seeing it and I have been talking about that with President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” “Mr. Trump He said in a telephone interview. “Something is going to happen, but they are not yet ready. But something will happen. We are going to do it.”

The strike occurs only a few days after a Russian missile crashed into the Ukrainian government headquarters in the center of kyiv, the first time the complex was beaten in the war of three and a half years. Tens of thousands have been killed and millions forced from their homes in the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.

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