25 killed as Russian forces hit prison and hospital in Ukraine

Russia said on Tuesday that it wanted peace in Ukraine, hours after mounting attacks that killed at least 25 people, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman and more than a dozen prison inmates.

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The strikes came just hours after US President Donald Trump shortened his deadline for Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine - now into a fourth year - or face new sanctions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wilfully targeting a prison in the Zaporizhzhia region -- that Russia claims as its own-killing 16 people and wounding dozens others.

"It was a deliberate strike, intentional, not accidental. The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians in that facility," Zelensky said on social media in response.

The Kremlin denied the claim.

"The Russian army does not strike civilian targets," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, including from reporters.

The attacks came hours after Trump said he was cutting the deadline for President Vladimir Putin to halt the Ukraine war from 50 days to 10-12 days.

"I really felt it was going to end. But every time I think it’s going to end he kills people," Trump said on Monday on a visit to Scotland.

"I'm not so interested in talking (to him) anymore," he added.