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Russia Escalates Attacks on Ukraine After Trump Likened War to Playground Fight

HeadlineJun 09, 2025
Image Credit: Telegram/Ihor Terekhov

At least four people have died in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city. At least 60 people were injured. Meanwhile, Russian forces are moving closer to the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy. A number of nearby villages have already fallen. This all comes days after President Trump compared Russia and Ukraine with children fighting in a park.

President Donald Trump: “Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart. They don’t want to be pulled. Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”

In an interview with ABC News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by saying, “We are not kids with Putin at the playground. He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids”

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