Blast near Dnipro leaves 20 injured; Zelenskiy says Ukraine is ready to launch counteroffensive; Prigozhin says Kremlin factions are destroying Russia
Twenty people including five children were injured from an explosion thatnear the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday, the regional governor said. Rescuers pulled residents out from under the rubble, Serhiy Lysak said, posting online that three of the children were in serious condition. A total of 17 people were being treated in hospital. Reports on social media said a Russian missile caused the blast and that an emergency services building was also hit.
in an interview published on Saturday. The Ukrainian president said: “We strongly believe that we will succeed. I don’t know how long it will take … but we are going to do it and we are ready.”, the deputy defence minister, Volodymyr Havrylov, told Reuters on Saturday, despite the “unprecedented” wave of missile and drone attacks across the country in recent weeks., Gen David Petraeus told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding that the Ukrainians were “determined to liberate their country”.
Russia has said it will come back to full compliance with the New Start nuclear arms control treaty if Washington abandons its “hostile stance”Topics
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