Kyiv in mourning after strikes while allies discuss military support

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The day of mourning is observed in Kiev after the second largest Russian air attack of the war so far killed at least 23 people, including four children and dozens of others injured.

City Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said it was to honor the dead, as the widespread recovery efforts continue in the five -storey block of apartments, where 22 of 23 were killed.

The attack is widely condemned – the White House said, “Would stop at nothing to terrorize Ukraine”S

Meanwhile, EU Defense Ministers meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss support for Ukraine.

The drone and rocket strikes also damaged the EU diplomatic mission and the British Council building in Central Kiev.

Speaking on the way of the meeting on Friday, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovil Å¡akalienÄ— said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cheaply bought time to kill more people.”

“The hopes for possible peaceful negotiations are at least naive when we look at what is happening in Ukraine and what it just happens (on Thursday),” she added.

Estonia’s Defense Minister Hano Pevur said the best security guarantee for Ukraine would be NATO membership.

On Friday, the Swedish government called its Russian ambassador to protest the prolonged attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians – After such actions from the UK on Thursday.

A fewer battles were noticed on Friday night on Friday, although both Russia and Ukraine report that they are taking down dozens of drones.

The regional head of Harciw Oleh Sinehubov said five settlements in his region had been attacked, with one person killed in Buynsk.

The Ukrainian military said they had made strikes overnight at a facility in the Russian region of Brayansk, which he said was responsible for pumping fuel to deliver Moscow’s military efforts.

Trump hoped to organize a summit, including Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski and Putin, to end the war, but since then, these efforts have stopped.

Speaking after the attack on Thursday, Zelenski said Moscow had chosen “Ballistics Instead of Negotiations” and repeated Russia’s “new, difficult sanctions”.

Talking after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz said it seems unlikely that a meeting between Putin and Zelenski would be held.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Friday that current Western security guarantee suggestions She risks turning Ukraine into what she called a “provocateur” on the border of Russia.

Russia has long been arguing against every Western military presence in post -war Ukraine.

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