Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our studios

in central London. I'm Julian Marshall. At the end of a week in which a US envoy was in St Petersburg

talking to President Putin, Russia has once again lashed out at Ukraine.

34 people are reported to have been killed, among them children and 100 others injured,

when the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumi was hit today by two Russian ballistic missiles

packed with cluster munitions.

Emergency services say children are among the casualties

of the attack, which took place on the Christian Festival of Palm Sunday, what Ukrainians

call Willow Sunday. They've had to recover dead bodies from the street amid scenes of devastation

with damaged buildings and burnt out or destroyed vehicles,

including a bus.

Among the many voices of international condemnation was the US special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg,

who said the strikes cross any lines of decency.

Igor Chaparval is the head of the Sumi Regional Organization

of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.

Speaking at the scene, he described the rescue work.

We were on the left nearby.

We carried out the wounded.

We took them way on stretches to hospital.

They had different degrees of severity, both moderate and severe.

But we were not the only ones working.

The State Emergency Service was working, the military was working, and everyone was helping.

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