Zelenskyy says at least 22 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, hours after Trump put pressure on Moscow – as it happened

Published on July 30, 2025
Zelenskyy says at least 22 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, hours after Trump put pressure on Moscow – as it happened

At least 85 people injured in overnight attacks after Trump said he will shorten the deadline for reaching an agreement on a ceasefire to ‘10-12 days’. This live blog is closed

Here is the latest on the overnight attacks from our corrrespondent, Shaun Walker in Kyiv.

Russian airstrikes on Ukraine killed 22 people overnight, said the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and injured another 85, a day after Donald Trump said he was setting a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russia to make progress towards ending the war.

The worst death toll was at a prison facility in the town of Bilenke in the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia, which appeared to have taken a direct hit from a guided air bomb. Local authorities said 17 people died and dozens sustained injuries. A hospital in the city of Kamianske in the Dnipropetrovsk region was also hit, killing three people including a 23-year-old pregnant woman, Zelenskyy said.

“Today, Russia is challenging not only Ukraine and Europe, but also the United States.

Putin’s regime is incapable of stopping the war – this is possible only by force …”

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