At least 10 people were killed and 37 injured, including 12 children, during a large Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Ternopil, in the west of the country, which released "harmful substances" into the air, said Igor Klymenko, Ukraine's minister of internal affairs. He said the western regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil were "under a massive enemy attack" on Wednesday.

Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin by email for comment.

Why It Matters

The Russia-Ukraine war is grinding on through another winter with no clear end in sight, despite the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump—now apparently stalled—to broker a peace.

The Russian strikes come a month after the Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions targeting Russia’s oil industry and after the U.S. p

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