KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian airstrike killed more than 20 civilians who were collecting their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy 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 3 1/2-year-old war have largely stalled.

Zelenskiy said the Russian airstrike had hit the village of Yarova, about 15 miles (24 km) 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

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