Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected President Donald Trump’s idea that Russia and Ukraine are like kids at the playground who would be better off fighting for a while before being pulled apart.

Well, they gave Putin a reason to step in and wipe them out last night. That’s what I didn’t like about it. When I saw it — the strikes on Russian airfields — I said, ‘Here it goes, now there will be a strike,

The large-scale attack comes days after Trump says Putin had "very strongly" promised response to Ukraine "Spider web" attack.

(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed on Sunday to press on with prisoner exchanges with Russia and said any failure by Moscow to uphold humanitarian accords cast doubt over U.S. and other efforts to end the more than three-year-old conflict.

Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart towards the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap.