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Zelenskyy calls for more pressure on Russia so ‘murderers do not feel impunity’ after Thursday’s Kyiv strikes – Europe live | Ukraine

Morning Opening: 23 Death in Russian attacks on Kiev 23 deaths, Zelenskyy says

Jakub Krupa

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy he said At least 23 people died in Russian attacks on Kiev, In a single area in the Darnytskyi region of the city, including 22 people.

More than 50 people were injuredAnd 8 people are still missing.

Friday morning, Zelenskyy reiterated Russia’s call to be held responsible For these strikes.

He said:

Russia chooses ballistic instead of diplomacyHe continues to modernize ‘Shahed’ to kill ‘and deepens cooperation with actors like North Korea, that means The world should answer accordingly.

Strong sanctions, strong pressure, Strong steps are required to prevent the killers from being punished.

EU Defense Ministers Gather in Copenhagen Today, discussing what the block can do when it comes to the pressure of Russia to bring to the negotiation table and support and security guarantees for Ukraine.

The EU’s foreign policy chief who came to the meeting this morning Kaja Kallas in question:

“These attacks show this Putin is just mocking with all kinds of peace efforts. So what we need to do is to increase the pressure on Russia. “

Wait for this to be a recurrent theme in the comments of ministers during the day.

We will also receive news from the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der leyenWhile visiting the Eastern Wing and the member states of the French President, Emmanuel Macronand German lucky, Friedrich Merz, Meeting for a Franco-German summit in Toulon.

I will bring you all the important updates here.

His Friday, August 29, 2025, his Jakub Krupa here and this Europe lives.

Good morning.

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KEY EVENTS

Kyiv residents are deadly but challenging as a city.

Dan Sabbagh

Dan Sabbagh

In Kiev
Photos
Julia Kochetova

A five -storey housing in the apartment block Darnytskyi Area to the east of the city, Residents said they heard that Russian was bombed remotely. This was a familiar voice, and many of them move away from the windows in the central corridors extending along the block, just for the disaster to strike.

YasTremsky Family: Tetyana, Oleksandr, sons denys and a cat – survivors of the 4th floor. Photo: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

Oleksandr YasTremskyi, who took refuge in a corridor with his wife Tetiana and his sons Denys, said, “We did not understand what happened,” he said. “As if something went down to our house. And then we heard people screaming.” A hundred meters away, the other end of his buildings collapsed and sent it in the direction of “a large wave of dust and smoke.

Ivan survived the second floor, with his belongings in this housing building for 20 years. Photo: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian

Ivan Zhelezko, a service soldier, looked at the second floor apartment bombed, hanging at an inevitable angle of the balcony. Around in their bags A handful of things he managed to buy with him From the apartment he has lived with his family for 20 years.

Zhelezko said it was her Very puzzled to get angrydefining itself as confused. Among the died, he said that his friend’s sister and a childhood friend had their parents.

The soldier announced that his family had escaped because they left immediately after the first explosion and tried to insist Tragedy “There is nothing new for me”. Such a fatalism was difficult to believe, but added: “I’m happy to live my family.”

The fast -moving or those at the other end of the building may not have been damaged, but this, the savagery of the explosions that attracted all of the five floors, could only be caused by a cruise or ballistic missile attack, which did not have a chance for people on the path of rockets.

Resque workers clean the rubble at the Russian stroke on Borayspilska Street in the left bank in Kiev. Photo: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
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