At least 32 peo­ple have been killed in a Russ­ian mis­sile strike on the Ukrain­ian city of Sumy on Sun­day, of­fi­cials said.

Two bal­lis­tic mis­siles struck the heart of the city at around 10:15 a.m. as peo­ple gath­ered to cel­e­brate Palm Sun­day, ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials. Im­ages post­ed from the scene on of­fi­cial chan­nels showed lines of black body bags ly­ing on the side of the road, while more bod­ies were seen wrapped in foil blan­kets among the de­bris. Video footage al­so showed fire crews as they fought to ex­tin­guish the shells of burned-out cars among the rub­ble from dam­aged build­ings.

“On this bright Palm Sun­day, our com­mu­ni­ty has suf­fered a ter­ri­ble tragedy,” act­ing May­or Artem Kobzar said in a state­ment on so­cial me­dia. “Un­for­tu­nate­ly, we al­ready know of more than 20 deaths.”

At least 32 peo­ple were killed as a re­sult of the at­tack, in­clud­ing two chil­dren, the State Emer­gency Ser­vice of Ukraine said in a state­ment. A fur­ther 84 peo­ple were in­jured, in­clud­ing 10 chil­dren, it said.

Ukraine’s Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy con­firmed that res­cue ef­forts were on­go­ing and said “dozens” had been killed in the dou­ble mis­sile at­tack.

“Ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion, dozens of civil­ians were killed and wound­ed. On­ly filthy scum can act like this — tak­ing the lives of or­di­nary peo­ple,” he said. The head of the Ukrain­ian pres­i­dent’s of­fice, An­driy Yer­mak, said that the strike had al­so used clus­ter mu­ni­tions in an at­tempt to kill as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble. The As­so­ci­at­ed Press was un­able to ver­i­fy the claim.

The at­tack on Sumy is the sec­ond large-scale at­tack to claim civil­ian lives in just over a week, fol­low­ing a dead­ly mis­sile strike on Ze­len­skyy’s home­town of Kryvyi Rih on April 4 that killed some 20 peo­ple, in­clud­ing nine chil­dren.

Ze­len­skyy al­so called for a glob­al re­sponse to the at­tack. “Talks have nev­er stopped bal­lis­tic mis­siles and aer­i­al bombs. What’s need­ed is an at­ti­tude to­ward Rus­sia that a ter­ror­ist de­serves,” he said.

Oth­er world lead­ers al­so con­demned the at­tack, with French Pres­i­dent Em­manuel Macron say­ing that the strike un­der­mined Wash­ing­ton-led peace talks be­tween the two sides.

“Every­one knows: This war was ini­ti­at­ed by Rus­sia alone. And to­day, it is clear that Rus­sia alone choos­es to con­tin­ue it — with bla­tant dis­re­gard for hu­man lives, in­ter­na­tion­al law and the diplo­mat­ic ef­forts of Pres­i­dent Trump,” he wrote in a state­ment.

Else­where in Ukraine, a 62-year-old woman was killed in Russ­ian shelling on the Ukrain­ian city of Kher­son, re­gion­al Gov. Olek­san­dr Prokudin said Sun­day.

The may­or of the Ukrain­ian city of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, al­so said Sun­day that a Russ­ian strike had hit one of the city’s kinder­gartens, shat­ter­ing win­dows and dam­ag­ing the build­ing’s fa­cade. No ca­su­al­ties were re­port­ed.

The strikes come a day af­ter Rus­sia and Ukraine’s se­nior diplo­mats ac­cused each oth­er of vi­o­lat­ing a ten­ta­tive U.S.-bro­kered deal to pause strikes on en­er­gy in­fra­struc­ture, un­der­scor­ing the chal­lenges of ne­go­ti­at­ing an end to the 3-year war.

The two coun­tries’ for­eign min­is­ters spoke at sep­a­rate events at the an­nu­al An­talya Diplo­ma­cy Fo­rum, a day af­ter U.S. en­voy Steve Witkoff met with Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin to dis­cuss peace prospects.

“The Ukraini­ans have been at­tack­ing us from the very be­gin­ning, every pass­ing day, maybe with two or three ex­cep­tions,” Russ­ian For­eign Min­is­ter Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Moscow would pro­vide the U.S., Turkey and in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies with a list of Kyiv’s at­tacks dur­ing the past three weeks.

His Ukrain­ian coun­ter­part, An­drii Sybi­ha, con­test­ed that claim, say­ing Sat­ur­day that Rus­sia had launched “al­most 70 mis­siles, over 2,200 (ex­plod­ing) drones, and over 6,000 guid­ed aer­i­al bombs at Ukraine, most­ly at civil­ians” since agree­ing to the lim­it­ed pause on strikes.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) —