The latest air assault came after EU leaders, shaken by the prospect of US disengagement, agreed to boost the European bloc’s defences at a crisis summit on Thursday.
US and Ukrainian officials were expected to meet Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, a senior Kyiv official said, with Zelensky voicing hope for a “meaningful meeting”, and US envoy Steve Witkoff pledging to speak to Ukrainian negotiators about an “initial ceasefire” with Russia and a “framework” for a longer agreement.
“Russia is trying to hurt ordinary Ukrainians by shelling energy and gas production facilities, without abandoning its goal of leaving us without power and heating, and causing the greatest harm to ordinary citizens,“ he added in a post on Facebook.
“A fire broke out at the scene of the impact. A nearby apartment building was also damaged,“ Terekhov said, adding that its residents were being evacuated.
Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegubov also said on Telegram that a Russian strike hit a private company in Kharkiv, and left cars on fire.
Late Thursday, the Ukrainian emergency service also said “critical infrastructure” was damaged in an attack on the Odesa region in the south, with no injuries reported.
“Air defence forces shot down an enemy missile,“ and no casualties were reported, Negoda said, adding that there may be restrictions on gas supply.
In Brussels on Thursday, European countries greenlit a plan to “re-arm Europe” against the perceived threat from Russia, rallying around Ukraine after Zelensky’s White House blow-up with Trump, and Washington’s pause on military aid and intelligence sharing to Kyiv.
“We are putting our money where our mouth is.”
The defence plan eases fiscal rules to allow states to spend much more -- at a time when Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is embracing radical reforms to fund the country’s rearmament.
European governments are under pressure to step up defence as Trump questions whether the United States -- the guarantor of Europe’s security since World War II -- should continue its central role in NATO.
The US leader once again called that commitment into question on Thursday, complaining that its allies “should be paying more.”
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