AT least 23 people have been killed after a sickening Russian missile strike wiped out a civilian convoy rescuing families in “annexed” Ukraine. The horror attack in Zaporizhzhia comes …
He said: "The enemy rages on and seeks revenge for our steadfastness and his failures.
Police Colonel Sergey Ujryumov, head of the explosive disposal unit of the Zaporizhzhia police department, said the Russian military "know that columns are formed here to go to the occupied territories".Ukrainian vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov slammed Russia as "a terrorist state, which doesn’t value human life and disregard any internationally recognised rules of wartime".
The regions include areas in Zaporizhzhia - but not the city itself - which remains under Ukrainian control.The four regions cover some 90,000sq km, or about 15 per cent of Ukraine's total area - roughly the size of Hungary or Portugal.Billboards have appeared in Moscow declaring: "Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson - Russia!"
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