A Russian airstrike killed more than 20 civilians who were collecting their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday.

He called for pressure by Kyiv's allies on Russia, whose forces have pressed a grinding offensive across much of the eastern Donetsk region as diplomatic efforts to end the 3½-year-old war have largely stalled.

Zelenskyy said the Russian airstrike had hit the village of Yarova, about 24 kilometres from the city of Sloviansk and several kilometres behind the front line.

"Directly on people. Ordinary civilians. At the very moment when pensions were being disbursed," he wrote on X.

The president posted video footage showing bodies strewn across the ground and debris. Another 21 people were wounded, said Vadym Filashkin, the go

See Full Page