SUMY, Ukraine: A Russian missile strike on Sunday in the city centre of Ukraine's city of Sumy killed at least 32 people, Kyiv said, with European and US officials condemning the attack – one of the deadliest in months.

Kyiv said Moscow hit the northeastern city, close to the Russian border, with two ballistic missiles on Sunday morning and that the attack also wounded nearly 100 people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stressing that the attack occurred on Palm Sunday, said: "Only bastards do this."

US President Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, retired lieutenant general Keith Kellogg, said on X that the attack by Russian forces on civilian targets "crosses any line of decency."

The strike came two days after US envoy Steve Witkoff travelled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin and push Trump's efforts to end the war.

The local emergency service said 32 people died, including two children, and 99 were wounded, including 11 children.