Zelensky: Russia "thanked" US for lifting sanctions with bombs on Zaporizhzhia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia "thanked" the United States for lifting sanctions by bombing Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine that Russia has been attacking during the war.

Zelensky named an agreement on diesel fuel exports as the reason for the Russian strikes. According to him, the attacks on Zaporizhzhia caused 12 casualties, among them three children.

The source gives no further details about the terms of the agreement, the course of the attack or the condition of the victims.