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Russia launched its largest ever barrage on Kyiv early on Thursday, according to the city’s mayor, tearing open apartment buildings in a hours-long 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 Zelensky asked the United States for licences to manufacture Patriot air defence missiles to boost his country’s defences.
