Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine’s south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia, authorities said. They killed at least 16 inmates and wounded more than 90 others, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry said.

In the Dnipro region of central Ukraine, authorities said Russian missiles partially destroyed a three-storey building and damaged nearby medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward.

A prison was hit in the village of Bilenke (Ukraine’s State Criminal Executive Service via AP)

At least three people were killed, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman, and two other people were killed elsewhere in the region, local authorities said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that overnight Russian strikes across the country hit 73 cities, towns and villages.

“These were conscious, deliberate strikes – not accidental,” Mr Zelensky said on Telegram.

Mr Trump said on Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine after three years of war, moving up a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago. The move meant Mr Trump wants peace efforts to make progress by August 7-9.

He has repeatedly rebuked Mr Putin for talking about ending the war but continuing to bombard Ukrainian civilians. But the Kremlin has not changed its tactics.

“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” Mr Trump said during a visit to Scotland.

Mr Zelensky welcomed Mr Trump’s move on the timeline. “Everyone needs peace — Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and responsible leaders across the globe,” Mr Zelensky said in a post on Telegram. “Everyone except Russia.”

Yesterday, very important words were spoken by President Trump about how the Russian leadership is wasting the world’s time by talking about peace while simultaneously killing people. We all want genuine peace – dignified and lasting: Ukraine, all of Europe, the United States,… pic.twitter.com/w1HjWbXFmw — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 29, 2025

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russia is determined to achieve its goals in Ukraine, though he said Moscow has “taken note” of Mr Trump’s announcement and is committed to seeking a peaceful solution.

Mr Zelensky welcomed Mr Trump’s shortening of the deadline.

“Everyone needs peace – Ukraine, Europe, the United States and responsible leaders across the globe,” Mr Zelensky wrote in a post on Telegram. “Everyone except Russia.”

The Kremlin pushed back, with a top Putin lieutenant warning Mr Trump against “playing the ultimatum game with Russia”.

“Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran,” former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country’s Security Council, wrote on social media platform X.

“Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” Mr Medvedev said.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour, the Kremlin has warned Kyiv’s western backers that their involvement could end up broadening the war to Nato countries.

“Kremlin officials continue to frame Russia as in direct geopolitical confrontation with the West in order to generate domestic support for the war in Ukraine and future Russian aggression against Nato,” the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said on Monday.

A Russian attack damaged a prison in Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine’s State Criminal Executive Service via AP)

The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight. It said 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralised by Ukrainian air defences.

The Russian attack close to midnight on Monday hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Facility with glide bombs, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.

Glide bombs, which are Soviet-era bombs retrofitted with retractable fins and guidance systems, have been laying waste to cities in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army is trying to pierce Ukrainian defences. The bombs carry up to 3,000 kilograms of explosives.

At least 42 inmates were admitted to hospital with serious injuries, while another 40 people, including one staff member, sustained various injuries.

The strike destroyed the prison’s dining hall, damaged administrative and quarantine buildings, but the perimeter fence held and no escapes were reported, authorities said.

Ukrainian officials condemned the attack, saying that targeting civilian infrastructure, such as prisons, is a war crime under international conventions.

Russian forces also struck a grocery store in a village in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv, police said, killing five and wounding three civilians.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 27 July 2025. Find out more about Defence Intelligence’s use of language: https://t.co/JaC6y8Ew8H #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/TBwMsUDSVj — Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) July 27, 2025

Authorities in the southern region of Kherson reported one civilian killed and three wounded over the past 24 hours.

Alongside the barrages, Russia has also kept up its grinding war of attrition, which has slowly churned across the eastern side of Ukraine at a heavy cost in troop losses and military hardware.

The Russian Defence Ministry claimed on Tuesday that Russian troops have captured the villages of Novoukrainka in the Donetsk region and Temyrivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Ukraine has sought to fight back against Russian strikes by developing its own long-range drone technology, hitting oil depots, weapons plants and disrupting commercial flights.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that air defences downed 74 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight, including 43 over Bryansk.

Yuri Slyusar, the head of the Rostov region, said a man in the city of Salsk was killed in a drone attack, which started a fire at the Salsk railway station.

Hundreds of pharmacies have been forced to close across Russia due to a major cyberattack.

The Stolichki pharmacy chain, which has around 900 stores across the Moscow region, closed on late Tuesday morning, followed by Neofarm, which also has stores in the Russian capital.

It has left thousands of customers unable to access medication. It is unclear when the chains are expected to reopen.

It comes a day after Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot was rocked by a major attack, leading to dozens of flight cancellations and delays on Monday and again this morning.

The Silent Crow and Cyber Partisans hacker group, which support Ukraine, claim to have been lurking in Aeroflot’s systems for a year and have now carried out a “large-scale operation” that led to the “complete compromise and destruction” of Aeroflot’s internal IT infrastructure.

In a rare admission of vulnerability, the Kremlin said reports of a cyberattack against Aeroflot were “worrying”.

The second day of cyberattacks came hours after Ukraine was rocked by a series of overnight Russian attacks, which killed 27 people.

Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Zaporizhzhia, authorities said. They killed at least 16 inmates and wounded more than 90 others, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry said.

Meanwhile, a 23-year-old pregnant woman was among those killed in a strike on a maternity hospital in the central region of Dnipro.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said the strikes were “deliberate”, highlighting that they came just hours after Donald Trump reduced the deadline for Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire.

“These were conscious, deliberate strikes — not accidental,” he said on Telegram.

The Kremlin pushed back, with a top Putin mouthpiece warning the US president against “playing the ultimatum game with Russia.”

“Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran,” former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country’s Security Council, said in response to Mr Trump’s threats.

“Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” he added.

A t least 22 Ukrainians have been killed and another 85 injured in Russian strikes across the country overnight, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for “very harsh, truly painful” sanctions on Russia.

Moscow’s latest barrage comes hours after President Donald Trump said that he would be reducing the time period in which Vladimir Putin has to reach a peace deal or face heavy tariffs.

President Zelensky said that 73 cities and villages came under attack including the eastern city of Kamyanske, where a hospital was hit, killing a 23-year-old pregnant woman.

He added that airstrikes began around midnight local time, with several Russian bombs dropped on a prison facility on the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, most of which is currently under Russian occupation.

Ivan Federov, Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, said on Tuesday that 16 people were killed in the strikes calling it a “blatant war crime.”

“The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility. Many were killed, and another 43 people were wounded, some of them with very severe injuries,” Zelensky said on social media after the attacks.

Russian attacks continued on Tuesday morning, with a drone strike leaving two utility companyworkers injured in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka. Serhiy Horbunov, head of the city’s Military Administration, called it “cynical aggression by Russian occupiers” against civilian infrastructure.

Zelensky continued: “This was done after a completely clear position was voiced by the United States – a position supported by the world – that Russia must end this war and move to diplomacy,” he added.

The Ukrainian President referenced Trump’s updated deadline for Putin to reach a peace deal with Kyiv, which Zelensky says he welcomes.

“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There’s no reason they’re [Russia] waiting. 50 days, I wanted to be generous but we just don’t see any progress being made,” Trump told reporters as he sat down with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland on Monday.

The President also confirmed that he would be enforcing secondary tariffs on Russia should a deal not come to fruition. Two weeks ago, Trump said that he would give Russia 50 days to reach such a deal, and failure to do so would result in 100% tariffs on Russia and any of its trading partners.

Under the previous deadline, Moscow would have had until September 3rd, which has now been moved forward to between August 7-9.

“Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” said Deputy Chair of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev in response to Trump’s comments on Monday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina responded to Medvedev, saying: “To those in Russia who believe that President Trump is not serious about ending the bloodbath between Russia and Ukraine: You and your customers will soon be sadly mistaken.”

Medvedev then fired back, replying: “It’s not for you or Trump to dictate when to ‘get at the peace table’. Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved. Work on America first, gramps!” in the social media spat.

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Moscow has kept up its relentless pounding of civilian areas despite US President Donald Trump’s threat to punish Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops.

Four powerful Russian glide bombs hit a prison in Ukraine’s south-eastern region of Zaporizhzhia, authorities said. They killed at least 16 inmates and wounded more than 90 others, Ukraine’s Justice Ministry said.

In the Dnipro region of central Ukraine, authorities said Russian missiles partially destroyed a three-storey building and damaged nearby medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward.

A prison was hit in the village of Bilenke (Ukraine’s State Criminal Executive Service via AP)

At least three people were killed, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman, and two other people were killed elsewhere in the region, local authorities said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that overnight Russian strikes across the country hit 73 cities, towns and villages.

“These were conscious, deliberate strikes – not accidental,” Mr Zelensky said on Telegram.

Mr Trump said on Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine after three years of war, moving up a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago. The move meant Mr Trump wants peace efforts to make progress by August 7-9.

He has repeatedly rebuked Mr Putin for talking about ending the war but continuing to bombard Ukrainian civilians. But the Kremlin has not changed its tactics.

“I’m disappointed in President Putin,” Mr Trump said during a visit to Scotland.

Mr Zelensky welcomed Mr Trump’s move on the timeline. “Everyone needs peace — Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and responsible leaders across the globe,” Mr Zelensky said in a post on Telegram. “Everyone except Russia.”

Yesterday, very important words were spoken by President Trump about how the Russian leadership is wasting the world’s time by talking about peace while simultaneously killing people. We all want genuine peace – dignified and lasting: Ukraine, all of Europe, the United States,… pic.twitter.com/w1HjWbXFmw — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 29, 2025

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that Russia is determined to achieve its goals in Ukraine, though he said Moscow has “taken note” of Mr Trump’s announcement and is committed to seeking a peaceful solution.

Mr Zelensky welcomed Mr Trump’s shortening of the deadline.

“Everyone needs peace – Ukraine, Europe, the United States and responsible leaders across the globe,” Mr Zelensky wrote in a post on Telegram. “Everyone except Russia.”

The Kremlin pushed back, with a top Putin lieutenant warning Mr Trump against “playing the ultimatum game with Russia”.

“Russia isn’t Israel or even Iran,” former president Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy head of the country’s Security Council, wrote on social media platform X.

“Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” Mr Medvedev said.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour, the Kremlin has warned Kyiv’s western backers that their involvement could end up broadening the war to Nato countries.

“Kremlin officials continue to frame Russia as in direct geopolitical confrontation with the West in order to generate domestic support for the war in Ukraine and future Russian aggression against Nato,” the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said on Monday.

A Russian attack damaged a prison in Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine’s State Criminal Executive Service via AP)

The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight. It said 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralised by Ukrainian air defences.

The Russian attack close to midnight on Monday hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Facility with glide bombs, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.

Glide bombs, which are Soviet-era bombs retrofitted with retractable fins and guidance systems, have been laying waste to cities in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army is trying to pierce Ukrainian defences. The bombs carry up to 3,000 kilograms of explosives.

At least 42 inmates were admitted to hospital with serious injuries, while another 40 people, including one staff member, sustained various injuries.

The strike destroyed the prison’s dining hall, damaged administrative and quarantine buildings, but the perimeter fence held and no escapes were reported, authorities said.

Ukrainian officials condemned the attack, saying that targeting civilian infrastructure, such as prisons, is a war crime under international conventions.

Russian forces also struck a grocery store in a village in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv, police said, killing five and wounding three civilians.

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 27 July 2025. Find out more about Defence Intelligence’s use of language: https://t.co/JaC6y8Ew8H #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/TBwMsUDSVj — Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) July 27, 2025

Authorities in the southern region of Kherson reported one civilian killed and three wounded over the past 24 hours.

Alongside the barrages, Russia has also kept up its grinding war of attrition, which has slowly churned across the eastern side of Ukraine at a heavy cost in troop losses and military hardware.

The Russian Defence Ministry claimed on Tuesday that Russian troops have captured the villages of Novoukrainka in the Donetsk region and Temyrivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Ukraine has sought to fight back against Russian strikes by developing its own long-range drone technology, hitting oil depots, weapons plants and disrupting commercial flights.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that air defences downed 74 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight, including 43 over Bryansk.

Yuri Slyusar, the head of the Rostov region, said a man in the city of Salsk was killed in a drone attack, which started a fire at the Salsk railway station.

At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a series of overnight Russian missile strikes across Ukraine, officials said on Tuesday.

It comes just hours after Donald Trump warned Vladimir Putin to end the war within ten days or face crippling new sanctions.

The heaviest bombardment hit the Zaporizhzhia region, where eight strikes were carried out, including one that hit a prison, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the region’s military administration.

In a post on Telegram, he said: ’16 people were killed, 35 were wounded. The premises were destroyed and nearby houses were damaged.’

Missiles also rained down on the Dnipropetrovsk region, where several more people were killed and injured in multiple attacks, officials said.

A strike on the city of Kamyanske killed two people, wounded five others and damaged a hospital, according to regional governor Sergiy Lysak.

Another attack on the region’s Synelnykivsky district left one person dead and several more wounded, he said.

In a separate incident in Velykomykhaylivska on Monday night, ‘a 75-year-old woman was killed. A 68-year-old man was wounded. A private house was damaged,’ Lysak added in another Telegram post.

At least 20 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a series of overnight Russian missile strikes across Ukraine

The Zaporizhzhia region has been under constant attack since the war began. Russia has hit the region with drones in previous times

Ukrainian servicemen fire an autocannon towards a Russian drone in the Dnipropetrovsk region

In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person, according to local authorities.

‘A car was damaged on Ostrovsky Street. Unfortunately, the driver who was in it died,’ said Yuri Slyusar, acting governor of the Rostov region.

The attacks came as Ukrainian forces continue efforts to repel Russia’s summer offensive, which has pushed into areas that have been largely spared since the early stages of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, blasted the strikes, saying it was ‘another war crime’ committed by Russia.

Writing on X, he said: ‘(Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s regime, which also issues threats against the United States through some of its mouthpieces, must face economic and military blows that strip it of the capacity to wage war.’

Over the weekend, the Russian army announced it had ‘liberated the settlement of Maliyevka’ in the Dnipropetrovsk region, just weeks after it seized the first village in the area.

The strikes followed remarks by former US President Donald Trump, who on Monday warned Moscow it had just days to bring the war to an end.

He said Russia had ‘about 10 or 12 days’ to stop the conflict in Ukraine or face tough sanctions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff says the latest attacks is ‘another war crime’ committed by Russia