Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged allies on Wednesday not to show “weakness” to Vladimir Putin, after the Russian leader threatened retaliation against recent Ukrainian strikes in a call with Donald Trump. “If the world reacts weakly to Putin’s threats, he sees that as a willingness to turn a blind eye to his actions,” Ukraine’s president said. “When he feels neither strength nor pressure, but weakness, he commits yet more crimes.”
Russian drone strikes killed five people and wounded six others in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday morning. “Five people have been reported dead, including two women and a one-year-old child, who were found under the rubble,” said Vyacheslav Chaus, a Chernihiv regional official, adding six people were wounded and hospitalised.
Russian drones struck apartment buildings in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, triggering fires and injuring 17 people including two children, said Oleh Syniehubov, the regional governor.
Ukrainian drone attacks hit the power grid in Russian-held parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, cutting electricity to tens of thousands of residents, Russia-installed officials said early on Thursday. Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian-held parts of the two regions cut power to about 700,000 people earlier in the week.
Russian drones struck apartment buildings in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, triggering fires and injuring at least nine people, the city’s mayor said early on Thursday.
