Ukraine-Russia war live: Two dead in Putin ‘double tap’ missile attack that hits railway station near Kharkiv

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Here is the latest update on Russian shelling in the Kherson region:

“Russian shelling of Ukraine killed three people on Saturday, officials said, as the two countries exchanged drone attacks, one of which set ablaze a Russian oil depot.

Two people died in Ukraine’s partly occupied Kherson region and two were wounded in the attack close to the regional capital, said Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin. Another person died Saturday afternoon and 16 were wounded in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, according to Gov. Oleh Syniehubov.

An oil depot in the Tsimlyansky district, deep inside Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, was set ablaze in the early hours of Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack — the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region.”

“For the sake of international justice, cases like the intentional attack on the biggest child hospital in Kyiv (are) worth lifting to the ICC,” he said.

At least 44 people were killed and around 200 wounded by the Russian strikes on Monday in what one United Nations aid worker described as “one of the worst attacks” they had seen since February 2022, when the full-scale invasion began.

The attacks hit cities across the country, killing 10 in Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, but three quarters of the fatalities came from the capital.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the shooting of former US president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Mr Zelensky wrote on X: “I am appalled to learn about the shooting of former US president Donald trump at his rally in Pennsylvania. Such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world. Never should violence prevail.”

Mr Zelensky added he was “relieved” that Trump, who has frequently criticised U.S. military aid to Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion, was safe and wished him “a speedy recovery”.

“I extend my wishes for strength to everyone who is horrified by this event. I wish America emerges stronger from this.”

Two people have died after Russian missile attacks on a village outside of Kharkiv. Reuters photographers captured the scene in Budy, a small town in the Kharkiv region, after the attack on Saturday. One view shows the site of a missle strike, another shows a damaged car, and one man shows the destruction of his home.

Russian forces launched a “double tap” missile attack on Saturday on a small town near Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people, an emergency services official and a police officer, officials said.

Officials also reported four dead in a series of attacks in Donetsk region to the southeast and two more in southern Kherson region.

Prosecutors said the mid-afternoon missile attack targeted the railway station in Budy, southwest of Kharkiv. After rescue teams arrived, a second missile hit the area.

They said 25 people were injured in the incidents, including two children.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the head of the Kharkiv district emergency services was killed, along with a police officer from a rapid reaction unit. Among the injured were three emergency workers, a policeman and about 20 civilians.

Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko has said he hopes there will not be any tensions at the country’s border with Ukraine.

During a visit to troops in the border region, he suggested tensions are easing after Ukraine withdrew some troops from the area, according to state news agency BelTA.

He said: “Now we have no complications with the Ukrainians, and I hope that there won’t be any.”

Lukashenko, who is an ally of Russia’s President Putin, has also announced the withdrawal of Belarusian troops from the border.