More than 20 people killed overnight after Trump said he will shorten the deadline for reaching an agreement on a ceasefire to ‘10-12 days’

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just confirmed that at least 22 people were killed , and 85 injured in attacks targeting 73 Ukrainian cities and villages overnight, just hours after “everyone once again felt hope for an end to the killings.”

He described some of the attacks in more detail, including a strike on a city hospital in Kamianske which killed three, including a pregnant 23-year-old woman, and a “deliberate” attack on a civilian penal colony in Zaporizhia .

Every murder of our people by the Russians; every Russian strike, when there could have been a ceasefire long ago, if Russia had not refused – all this shows that Moscow deserves very tough, truly painful, and therefore fair and effective sanctions pressure.

They must be forced to stop the killings and make peace.

Peace is possible, but only when Russia stops the war that it started and stops tormenting our people.