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Russia struck Ukraine’s main government building with a ballistic missile armed with cluster munitions, the EU's ambassador to Ukraine said after visiting the attack site yesterday.
At least four people, including an infant, were killed on Sunday as Russia launched its largest air attack of the war so far, setting fire to the building housing Ukraine's cabinet of ministers in central Kyiv.
"I saw it with my own eyes: Putin knows exactly what he is doing,” said EU envoy Katarina Mathernova. The building only avoided complete destruction because the missile did not fully detonate, she said.
She added: "The evidence of this existential battle is right in front of us: Putin is deliberately targeting the country’s lifelines – its government, its energy, its people."
Earlier, US president Donald Trump said he was ready to push ahead with a new round of sanctions after Russia targeted the main government building in Kyiv for the first time since the Ukraine war began in 2022.
He said European leaders were set to visit the United States this week to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine, adding he would speak with Russian president Vladimir Putin “soon”.
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More than 800 drones and 13 missiles were fired at cities across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, in the early hours of Sunday 7 September. The strike marked the first attack of the war on the main Ukrainian government building, and is the second major assault on the capital within two weeks.
In response, president Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack “a deliberate crime and prolongation of the war” and called on the US to provide a “strong response” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Portugal's prime minister Luis Montenegro urged Chinese president Xi Jinping to use his country's close relationship with Russia to push for a "just and lasting peace" in Ukraine, during a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday.
Montenegro's visit to China is the first by a Portuguese head of government in nearly a decade.
It comes a week after Xi hosted a massive military parade in Beijing marking 80 years since Japan's World War Two defeat, flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un in what EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has called an "autocratic alliance".
"We really count on your contribution and the close relationship that China maintains with the Russian Federation in order for us to build, as fast as possible, a just and lasting peace in Ukraine," Mr Montenegro told his host.
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Russia appears intent on capturing the Ukrainian territories of Odesa and Mykolaiv, according to images shared on social media.
A map could be seen in the background last month when Russia's chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, was addressing a briefing of Moscow’s ministry of defence. In the map, Ukraine and Russia are divided by a thick black line.
The Russian side of the line included five publicly claimed regions of Ukraine but also the territories of Odesa and Mykolaiv.
Both the oblasts near the Black Sea coastline hold significant strategic importance.
Russia already claims full control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and the map suggested Moscow’s territorial ambitions extend into Odesa and Kharkiv, neither of which had been included in earlier demands.
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A man died as a result of Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi, a Russian regional governor said this morning.
Debris from a destroyed drone hit a car the man was driving in the Adler district of Sochi, Krasnodar governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on his Telegram channel.
In addition, six residential houses were damaged, Kondratyev said.
The full-scale of the attack was not immediately known.
The Russian defence ministry said its air defence units destroyed two drones over the Krasnodar region, but the ministry reports only how many drones its forces destroy, not how many Ukraine launches.
Overall, Russian defence systems destroyed 31 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 15 over the Black Sea, the ministry said on Telegram.
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