What happened
Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine Thursday, killing at least 23 people in Kyiv and damaging the European Union’s diplomatic office and the nearby British Council office, along with scores of other civilian buildings.
Who stated what
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the strike, the second-largest since Russia invaded in 2022 and the deadliest since President Donald Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin to jump-start peace talks, revealed that Moscow is choosing “ballistics instead of the nereceivediating table.” It was the “clearest signal” since the summit that Putin planned to “eschew Trump’s peace efforts” while “also striking a blow to the Western institutions supporting Kyiv,” The Wall Street Journal stated.
Trump “was not particularly perturbed” by “Putin’s overnight bombardment,” Politico stated. He “was not happy about this relocate, but he was also not surprised,” White Houtilize press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, equating Russia’s “attack on Kyiv,” with Ukraine’s recent “blow to Russia’s oil refineries.”
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What next?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated the EU was preparing a 19th sanctions package to force Putin “to the nereceivediating table,” and vowed that European security guarantees would “turn Ukraine into a steel porcupine.”
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