Russia, Ukraine Strikes Kill 10 as Talks Stall
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- Russia struck a supermarket in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernigiv, killing two people including a 10-year-old child and wounding 13, according to city head Dmytro Bryzhynsky
- Zelenskyy condemned the Chernigiv strike as a "deeply cynical drone strike on an ordinary supermarket" and said Russia launched ballistic missiles at Kyiv while killing one person each in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, where officials said Moscow targeted a residential building
- Ukraine killed four people in a drone strike on a bus stop in Moscow-held Gorlivka, wounding seven, and another person was killed in the occupied part of the Kherson region, according to Russian-installed authorities
- Ukraine also struck the Russian border village of Smorodino in the Belgorod region, killing one person with a drone strike
- The escalation came a day after Moscow said a Ukrainian strike on an occupied town on the Azov Sea killed 12 people, bringing the two-day civilian death toll to at least 30
- U.S.-led diplomacy to end the fighting has stalled, with the Kremlin occupying swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine and signaling it intends to seize the rest of east Ukraine by force
Why it matters: With at least 30 civilians killed across both sides in just two days and strikes now hitting far-behind-the-frontline targets like the Chernigiv supermarket and Gorlivka bus stop, the war's civilian toll is accelerating precisely because peace talks remain frozen — Zelenskyy's framing of "deliberate Russian terror" reflects the political stakes for Kyiv as diplomatic leverage fades.
