The US president apportioned blame to Ukraine's leader hours after the deadliest strike on civilians this year.

Russia’s statement that it hit a Ukrainian officers’ meeting in Sumy contradicts Trump’s claim he had been told the attack was a “mistake”. Russia's defence ministry reportedly said it hit a meeting of Ukrainian commanding officers in Sumy with two Iskander missiles after Trump defended the attack as a "mistake".

Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for “allowing” the war with Russia to begin in a fresh swipe at the Ukrainian president. Mr Trump said his Ukrainian counterpart and Joe Biden, the former US president, “did an absolutely horrible job” of preventing the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow and called for an end to the war “fast”.