Zelenskiy accuses US of inaction after Russian strikes kill 78

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 9 Oct, 06:55 · Archive

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused the US of being unwilling to help Ukraine after Russian strikes killed at least 78 people in two days.

A Russian bomb attack on the eastern city of Kramatorsk killed at least 35 people on Thursday, with strikes hitting two buses. City authorities reported a further drone attack in the evening that killed two people. The attacks followed a mass Russian drone and missile assault the previous day that killed dozens across Ukraine, including 22 people in a residential building in the central town of Pryluky, about 130km east of Kyiv. In total, Zelenskiy said 78 people were killed and 215 wounded by strikes over the two days.

Zelenskiy criticised Washington's effort to pursue economic ties with Russia while also seeking to mediate the more than four-year war. Speaking to reporters in Pryluky, the Ukrainian leader urged the US to expand Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite service to help target Russian ballistic-missile launchers. 'Open Starlink for Ukraine. You did open it when you were responding to Iran. I've said quite openly - give it to us, help us defend our skies and dominate there. And then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table,' he said.

Ukraine has in recent months aimed to wrest the battlefield initiative from Russia, whose gains have slowed, but is still suffering from Moscow's increasingly brutal air war.

How it is being reported

• Zelenskiy accuses US of inaction amid Russian strikesAfter a Russian strike on Ukrainian buses killed dozens of people, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has hit out at US efforts to end the war and pleaded for more support.The West Australian · 9 Oct, 06:19
• Zelenskiy accuses US of inaction amid Russian strikesAfter a Russian strike on Ukrainian buses killed dozens of people, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has hit out at US efforts to end the war and pleaded for more support.Perth Now · 9 Oct, 06:19

In this story: Volodymyr Zelenskiy · Ukraine · Russia · Kramatorsk · Pryluky · United States

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