Russia strikes Ukraine, killing seven after Zelenskyy’s UN speech

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The Kharkiv-region strike is the clearest immediate, reported battlefield development among the day’s major international stories. It follows renewed calls at the United Nations for an immediate, full and unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged both Russia and Ukraine to halt attacks affecting commercial vessels in the Black Sea.[9][11] The incident comes amid broader diplomatic activity at the UN General Assembly, including discussions involving the war in Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, Taiwan and frontier artificial-intelligence risks.[11][14]

Sources: The Guardian, Nhandan, Reuters, The New York Times