KYIV ¨C Russia launched its largest ever barrage on Kyiv early on Thursday, according to the city¡¯s mayor, tearing open apartment buildings in a hourslong drone and missile attack that killed at least 17 people.
In Moscow, the Kremlin vowed to further ramp up the ¡°pressure¡± on Kyiv after the strike, sticking to its no-compromise rhetoric as rescuers in Kyiv scoured the rubble for survivors.
The European Union¡¯s top diplomat proposed new sanctions on Moscow, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked the United States for licenses to manufacture Patriot air defense missiles to boost his country¡¯s defenses.
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