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• UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ by Moscow plan for strikes
• EU says Kremlin bore ultimate responsibility for incidents
MOSCOW: Russia’s call for diplomats and foreigners to leave Kyiv over the threat of fresh strikes drew a sharp backlash from Western countries on Tuesday, some of whom accused Moscow of escalating the more than four-year war.
Russia announced on Monday it had started a campaign of “systematic” strikes on Kyiv, after battering Ukraine with hundreds of drones and a hypersonic missile over the weekend.
