Seattle Daily Star

  Ukrainian official decries ‘deliberate attack on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents’ of eastern city; Russia denies responsibility. At least 39 people, including four children, have been killed and nearly 100 wounded in a rocket attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. In an online post on Friday, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko revised an earlier estimate of 30 killed and said many of the 87 wounded were in a serious condition. A Ukrainian intelligence official said four children were among those killed. Ukrainian officials accused Russia over the attack, saying it took place as civilians were at the station in an attempt to evacuate to safer parts of the country. Russia, however, denied any involvement. “Two rockets hit Kramatorsk railway station,” Ukrainian Railways said in a statement. Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of the railway company, called it “a deliberate attack on the passenger infrastructur...

  Negotiations between the two sides are ongoing, three weeks after Putin invaded his neighbour Britain’s armed forces minister says Ukraine should not be pressured into making territorial concessions to Russia as part of any peace deal to end the war. James Heappey said the West may have a role to play in brokering an agreement between Kyiv and Moscow, but insisted it would be up to the Ukrainians to decide what terms they could accept. “This can’t go on indefinitely,” he told Sky News. “If the West has a role to play alongside others beyond the region in brokering that peace and offering something the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, that’s fine.   “What I absolutely don’t think we should do — and I have heard some around the West suggest this — is somehow Ukraine should be pressured to give up the Donbas or to give up its claim on Crimea. “Those are decisions entirely for President Zelenskyy and his government. It is not for the West to trade away Ukrainian sover...