Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said at least 20 civilians were killed when a Russian glide bomb struck an eastern Ukrainian village, in the latest barrage from Moscow undermining any diplomatic momentum to end the war, now in its fourth year.

Zelenskyy said on Tuesday the attack was “a blatantly brutal Russian air strike on the village of Yarova in Donetsk Oblast. Directly targeting people. Ordinary civilians. At the moment when pensions were being paid out.”

There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin. Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war that Russia launched in February 2022, but thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.

“According to preliminary information, more than 20 people were killed. Th

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