At least 10 people were killed in a Russian missile strike on the shopping mall in Kremenchuk, regional governor Dmytro Lunin has said.Russian shelling of the city of Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine has killed four people and wounded 19, the regional governor has said.There was no immediate comment from Russia, which denies targeting civilians.
“Doctors are providing all the necessary assistance. Information on the number of victims is being updated,” Oleh Synehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Lunin, the governor of the Poltava region, said that 40 others had been wounded.A Russian missile strike has hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, killing at least ten people and wounding 40, senior Ukrainian officials say.
NATO will increase the strength of its rapid reaction force nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says.
The US will provide an advanced air missile defence system to Ukraine, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirms on the sidelines of the G7 summit taking place in southern Germany.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend a round of talks with the leaders of Sweden and Finland, as well as NATO, on Tuesday before the summit in Madrid, his spokesperson says.
Biden has raised the tariff rate on certain Russian imports to 35 percent as a result of suspending Russia’s “most favoured nation” trading status over its war in Ukraine, according to a proclamation issued by the White House.
The higher 35 percent duty applies to imports of “certain other products of the Russian Federation, the importation of which has not already been prohibited,” the proclamation said.
The Biden administration previously banned US imports of Russian petroleum and energy products, fish, seafood, alcoholic beverages and non-industrial diamonds. An annex listing the products subject to the higher duty was not immediately available.
