Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that more than 20 civilians had been killed in a Russian airstrike on a village in the eastern region of Donetsk.
He wrote on X: “Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed.”
In the aftermath, Zelensky called on Kyiv’s allies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, saying “the world must not remain silent”.
Monday’s reported strike came after Moscow launched its largest air attack of the war over the weekend, which set fire to Ukraine’s main government building.
Russia’s latest series of strikes have seemingly renewed its vow to fully take over the country, analysts said, with Monday’s strike killing “ordinary civilians” collecting their pensions.
Putin invited Zelensky last week to join him in Moscow for talks (Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev and Thibault Camus/AFP)Dr Stephen Hall, assistant professor in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics at the University of Bath, said that despite Vladimir Putin’s offer last week to host Zelensky in Moscow for talks, Russia was never going to budge on its plans to take over Ukraine.
He told The i Paper: “The Kremlin has been very clear it is definitely a Ukrainian capitulation in terms of what it wants out of this war.”
He added: “I think the true intentions have been there for three years, with the biggest drone strike on Ukraine throughout the course of the war having been carried out.”
Dr Hall also said that the Kremlin doesn’t believe US President Donald Trump is going to do anything in response.
Trump said on Sunday that he was ready to escalate sanctions on Russia following the weekend strikes.
Trump hosted Putin for a summit in Alaska last month, which failed to achieve any breakthrough towards finding a resolution to the conflict.
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Oleg Ignatov, a senior Russia analyst for International Crisis Group, told The i Paper: “War is war, military plans and tasks continue but negotiations are a separate story. If we notice new strikes, it does not mean that negotiations are not being considered.”
But he added that the recent attacks should serve as a reminder to Western media that Russia’s position has not changed.
“There is media hype around negotiations, but on substance, we will get something when we have a real understanding of what’s going on between Russia and the United States right now,” he said.
While talks of a potential ceasefire dominated outlets last week, attention has since turned to other topics, notably the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s “birthday book” as well as further immigration raids across the US.
However, Dr Marnie Howlett, a lecturer in Russian and East European politics at the University of Oxford, said that despite coverage shifting to other topics, Ukrainians continue to live through strikes. She highlighted the importance of such events being recorded.
“Now is more important than ever for the media to be centred on the conflict both to educate people globally and put pressure on political leaders to support a long-standing peace in Ukraine,” she told The i Paper.
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