(AP): Russia hit railway infrastructure across Ukraine on Monday with the aim of disrupting foreign weapons supplies, while the US declared it would provide more weapons despite Moscow’s objections.
At least five people were killed and 18 wounded in Russian strikes in the Vinnytsia region, according to Ukrainian officials.
The railways are also used by civilians moving between cities or attempting to flee conflict zones. Earlier this month some 50 civilians – many of them trying to evacuate to safer locations – were killed by a Russian rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk.
Elsewhere on Monday, plans for a humanitarian corridor to let civilians leave the siege at the steelworks in Mariupol failed to come together.
Moscow said there would be a ceasefire around the plant in the early afternoon but Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said no agreement had been reached and that Russia was acting unilaterally.