Toughen Sanctions After Putin's Terror Blitz, Zelensky Tells West

No let-up...firefighters battle a blaze after Russian missile attacks in Zaporizhzhia. Inset below, president Volodymyr Zelensky shows a steely defiance

- Mark Reynolds

FURIOUS Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday called for tougher sanctions from the West in response to Vladimir Putin’s “new wave of terror”.

The Ukrainian president said Russia’s mass missile attack on Monday, which killed 19 people, injured scores more and left much of the country with blackouts, would only “delay our recovery a little”.

He warned: “For such a new wave of terror there must be a new wave of responsibility for Russia – new sanctions, new forms of political pressure and new forms of support for Ukraine. The terrorist state must be deprived of the thought that any wave of terror can bring it anything.”

Mr Zelensky said 28 more missiles were fired on Tuesday, 20 of which were shot down. These included Iranian combat drones.