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KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelensky promised retribution against Moscow on Friday after laying red roses at the rubble of a Kyiv apartment building where a Russian missile strike killed 24 people, including three children.
Aboard Air Force One on his way back from China, US President Donald Trump told reporters that the strikes on the Ukrainian capital, launched hours after a three-day US-brokered ceasefire expired, could disrupt efforts to find a diplomatic resolution of the war.
Search operations were called off at the devastated building, which was struck on Thursday during Russia’s heaviest bombardment of the Ukrainian capital this year.
“Ukraine will not allow any of the aggressor’s strikes that take the lives of our people to go unpunished,” Zelensky said after meeting top military and intelligence officials to discuss retaliatory long-range strikes.
