Russia's Deadliest Attack on Kyiv Since Trump-Putin Summit Damages EU Building

Russia launched a deadly barrage across Ukraine on Thursday, punctuating a lull in attacks on Kyiv during President Trump's peace efforts and damaging buildings across the capital, including those of the British Council and EU delegation, prompting angry responses from European leaders.

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The attack, which left at least 17 people dead, resulted in the highest death toll in the capital since Trump held talks in Alaska earlier this month with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president who increasingly appears to be defying White House threats of sanctions and pressing on with his war on Ukraine. It comes a day before a Ukrainian delegation is set to meet Trump's team in New York to discuss security guarantees for any peace deal.

Russia's aerial strikes involved 598 attack drones and 31 missiles, including nine ballistic missiles, which can only be intercepted with the U.S.-made Patriot air-defense system. The Ukrainian Air Force said it downed 26 missiles and 563 drones in total. At least 13 locations were hit directly, the Air Force said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the barrage "a horrific and deliberate killing of civilians" that targeted residential buildings. At least four of the dead were children, and a further 38 people were injured, emergency services said.

"The Russians are not choosing to end the war, only new strikes," Zelensky wrote on social media. "It is crucial now that the world responds firmly. Russia must stop this war it started and continues."

European Union officials said that the bloc's delegation building in Kyiv had been damaged in the strikes, but that staff members there were safe. Photos taken by a member of the EU delegation in Kyiv showed ceiling panels strewn across the floor of the office building and shattered glass around the entrance. The EU said the building remains open and fully functional.