{"id":301043,"date":"2025-07-29T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301043\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:15:14","slug":"russia-strikes-prison-in-ukraine-killing-17-and-wounding-dozens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301043\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia strikes prison in Ukraine, killing 17 and wounding dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian airstrike on a prison in a frontline region in southeastern Ukraine has killed 17 <\/b>people and wounded 42 <\/b>others, Ukrainian officials say.<\/p>\n

The overnight attack in Zaporizhzhia also damaged surrounding homes, regional leader Ivan Fedorov said. Russian forces launched eight strikes using high-explosive aerial glide bombs, he added.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia’s “deliberate strike” on the grounds of a correctional facility, accusing Moscow of killing Ukrainians when a ceasefire “could have long been in place”.<\/p>\n

Zaporizhzhia is one of four eastern regions in Ukraine that Russia claims to have annexed since 2022, although the region is largely under Ukrainian control.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s justice ministry said four bombs hit the Bilenke penitentiary, destroying the dining hall, administrative headquarters and quarantine area. All those killed and wounded were inmates, it added.<\/p>\n

Russian forces have frequently targeted Zaporizhzhia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s human rights commissioner said attacking a prison was a gross violation of humanitarian law as people in detention did not lose their right to life and protection.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump issued a stark ultimatum to Moscow on Monday<\/a>, warning that Russia had “about 10 or 12 days” to agree a ceasefire or face sweeping sanctions. Speaking during a visit to Scotland, Trump told reporters he would “announce it probably tonight or tomorrow,” adding, “there’s no reason to wait, if you know what the answer is”.<\/p>\n

Zelensky praised Trump’s “very important words” and said that Russia was “wasting the world’s time”.<\/p>\n

Earlier in July, Trump set a 50-day deadline for the Kremlin to reach a truce with Kyiv or risk economic penalties, but the warning has not halted Russia’s barrage of strikes.<\/p>\n

There were further casualties in a missile and drone attack late on Monday in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

A strike on the industrial city of Kamyanske left two people dead and five injured, according to regional head Serhiy Lysak. <\/p>\n

Another person was killed and several were wounded in the Synelnykivsky district, while a 75-year-old woman was killed and a 68-year-old man injured when their home was hit in a village late on Monday.<\/p>\n

The wave of attacks came as Russia pushed deeper into Ukrainian territory in Dnipropetrovsk. <\/p>\n

At the weekend, Moscow said its forces had captured the village of Maliyevka, weeks after capturing their first village in the region. Ukraine has rejected Russia’s claims.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Russia, officials said Ukraine had launched dozens of drones overnight in the southern Rostov region, killing one person in their car in the town of Salsk and setting fire to a goods train. <\/p>\n

Another person was reported killed in their car in the border region of Belgorod and his wife was wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian airstrike on a prison in a frontline region in southeastern Ukraine has killed 17 people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-301043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936238882429495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}