Extract from ABC News
Firefighters put out the fire in a fire department school following a Russian air attack in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
In short:
At least 21 civilians have died after Russia struck a Ukrainian prison and medical facility overnight, officials say.
The Russian bombardment comes despite Donald Trump threatening to punish Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff condemned the strikes as "another war crime" committed by Russia.
Donald Trump moves up deadline for Vladimir Putin to reach ceasefire with Ukraine.
Mr Trump 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.
"I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer [to] what's going to happen."
The Kremlin pushed back, however, 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 online.
"Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country."
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.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles along with 37 Shahed-type strike drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight.
They say 32 Shahed drones were intercepted or neutralised by Ukrainian air defences.
Anti-drone nets have been installed on a street in the frontline town of Orikhiv in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region. (Reuters)
The Russian attack close to midnight on Monday hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Facility with four guided aerial bombs, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.
At least 42 inmates were hospitalised 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 targeting civilian infrastructure, such as prisons, was a war crime under international conventions.
A Ukrainian service member walks on a street draped with anti-drone nets in the frontline town Orikhiv. (Reuters)
In Dnipro, missiles hit the city of Kamianske, partially destroying a three-story building and damaging nearby medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a city hospital ward.
Two people were killed and five were wounded, including a pregnant woman who is now in a serious condition, according to regional head Serhii Lysak.
Further Russian attacks hit communities in Synelnykivskyi district with FPV drones and aerial bombs, killing at least one person and injuring two others.
According to Lysak, Russian forces also targeted the community of Velykomykhailivska, killing a 75-year-old woman and injuring a 68-year-old man.
AP
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