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Ukraine’s Zelensky condemns Russian drone strike that killed five on passenger train
Ukraine’s DSNS emergency service/Kharkiv regionAt least one carriage of the passenger train was burning after the Russian drone attack in north-eastern Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as “terrorism” a Russian drone attack on a crowded passenger train that local officials say killed at least five people and injured several others.
More than 200 people were on the train, officials said, when one of the carriages was hit by a drone and two other drones exploded nearby, in Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday.
Zelensky said 18 people were in the carriage at the time and there was no “military justification” in targeting civilians.
Russia has not commented on the strike, but it has intensified drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure during the harshest winter in years.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, the southern port city of Odesa was hit by dozens of drones and officials said three people were killed and dozens more wounded.
Energy officials said a local facility had suffered “enormous damage” overnight into Tuesday and Odesa city chief Serhii Lysak said attacks had continued for a second night into Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in the Kyiv region, a couple were killed and their four-year-old child was hurt when a residential block of flats was hit in a district close to the capital, police said.
Millions of people across Ukraine have been left without heating, electricity and water after the Russian assaults.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
In a post on social media late on Tuesday, Zelensky wrote: “In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way – purely as terrorism.”
Pictures and footage released by Ukraine’s emergency services show at least one badly destroyed carriage still burning after the attack.
Kharkiv’s regional prosecutor’s office said the train was struck near the Yazykove village.
The office said the train was heading from the western border town of Chop to Barvinkove in the Kharkiv region via the regional capital Kharkiv.
This line runs further east to the Donetsk region, and is used by local residents and Ukrainian soldiers travelling to and from leave, as well as their wives and girlfriends travelling east to see them.
EPA/ShutterstockSeveral floors of one residential building in Odesa collapsed after the Russian overnight strike Officials in Odesa said Russia had launched more than 50 drones on the port overnight into Tuesday.
Three bodies were found in the rubble after several floors of one residential building collapsed after the strike, and a number of other buildings were damaged.
Russia’s daily aerial assaults continue even though Ukraine-Russia talks last week held the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war.
The talks that also involved US negotiators took place in the United Arab Emirates, and were hailed by all sides as constructive.
However, key territorial issues remain unresolved, and further meetings are expected this weekend.
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South Korea’s former first lady gets 20 months’ jail for bribery
The wife of South Korea’s ousted former president has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for accepting bribes from the controversial Unification Church.
However, the court cleared 52-year-old Kim Keon Hee on charges of stock price manipulation and receiving free opinion polls from a political broker before the 2022 presidential election, which her husband Yoon Suk Yeol won.
Yoon has already been sentenced to five years’ in jail for abusing power and obstructing justice in relation to his failed martial law bid in 2024.
This marks the first time in South Korea’s history that a former presidential couple are convicted at the same time.
On Wednesday, Judge Woo In-sung at the Seoul Central District Court ruled that Kim had “misused her position as a means of pursuing personal gain”.
“The higher [one’s] position, the more consciously one must guard against such conduct… The defendant failed to reject solicitations and was preoccupied with self-adornment,” the judge said.
A special counsel team appointed to the case said Kim received 80m ($56,000; £40,600) won of gifts, which include a Graff diamond necklace and several Chanel handbags, from the Unification Chruch between April and July 2022, in exchange for business and political favours.
The team had sought a 15-year jail term and a fine of 2 billion won for all three charges heard on Wednesday – for which Kim was convicted of one – but the judge noted that Kim was not the one who demanded or solicited the bribes, and that she had “no significant criminal record”.
She was however ordered to pay back 12.85 million won in cash and the court also ordered the confiscation of the diamond necklace.
Kim has also been charged over her alleged involvement in a scheme to recruit Unification Church followers to the conservative People Power Party that her husband was part of, and accepting gifts in exchange for government job appointments. The court has yet to hear those cases.
The former first lady had denied all charges, saying they were “deeply unjust”, although she did admit to receiving Chanel bags, which she said she later returned without using.
She made a public apology when she appeared for questioning last August. “I am truly sorry that a nobody like me has caused concern to the people,” she said.
Investigations into Kim’s dealings with the Unification Church had also led to the arrest of church leader Han Hak-ja.
Apart from the criminal allegations, Kim has also been the subject of other controversies. Last year, Sookmyung Women’s University annulled an art education degree she graduated with in 1999, after an ethics panel found she had plagiarised her master’s thesis.
Additional reporting by Leehyun Choi in Seoul
