Kyiv attacks death toll rises to 20 as Russia warns it will ‘continue to increase pressure’ on Ukrainian capital – Europe live

According to The Guardian, Russian forces struck Kyiv overnight, killing at least twenty people. Damage has been recorded across thirty locations in the city, with most strikes hitting ordinary residential buildings. Russia has warned it will continue escalating pressure on the Ukrainian capital. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pressing for faster results from an Irish investigation into alumina exports reaching Russia. He says European companies—some owned or effectively controlled by the Kremlin and sanctioned Russian oligarchs—continue supplying the aggressor with essential materials, even as war intensifies and international sanctions tighten.

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