The promise of peace shattered in the
heart of Kev.
It wasn't soldiers or weapons that were
struck, but homes.
Before dawn, 600 drones and missiles
rain down. Among the dead, children. An
assault so vast it stunned even the
unshakable.
No sign here that Moscow is moving
towards peace.
The moment we left the house, the siren
was screaming above my head. At this
point, you feel horrific primal fear
that pierces your body with needles. You
just don't know what to do.
>> The number of dead rose through the day.
More casualties pulled from the wreckage
of collapsed buildings.
British and European Union compounds
were hit. The diplomatic stakes raised
further. I'm in front of the British
Council, which has been very severely
damaged uh in last night's attack. It's
unacceptable.
>> To the foreign office in London, the
Russian ambassador to the UK was
summoned.
>> His car window lowered just enough for
cameras to catch him saying nothing when
crucial questions were asked. Are you
sabotaging keys, Ambassador?
>> Tonight, President Zalinski called it a
strike not only against Ukraine, but
against Europe and against President
Trump himself. He wants the US president
to feel it as a personal wound, a
deliberate slight.
>> But Trump's spokeswoman gave a familiar
response, saying both sides should take
a share of the blame. Perhaps uh both
sides of this war are not ready to end
it themselves. The president wants it to
end, but the leaders of these two
countries need it to end and want it to
end, must want it to end as well. Um and
I think the president will make some
additional statements on this later.
>> It's 2 weeks now since the red carpet
and the applause in Alaska.
For those who winced at the warmth of
this welcome, the promise was of payback
later. This is what it would take to get
Putin to meet his real rival, they were
told. We had an extremely productive
meeting and many points were agreed to.
>> And then Washington, Zilinski in his
suit with Trump and then a caravan of
European allies acting as advisers and
bodyguards.
Still a direct meeting said to be the
next step.
But tonight, the German and French
leaders spoke out, saying aloud what
they might have suspected all along.
>> President Zilinski, President Putin,
>> it is clear that the meeting between
President Zilinski and President Putin
will not take place.
>> This is in contrast to what was agreed
between President Trump and President
Putin.
His words were chosen with care because
the fear now is that this chapter of the
war generously described as peace
negotiations
might be drawing to a close.
>> Roit say I mean it's extraordinary.
Alaska and all of those extraordinary
meetings at the White House seem as if
they're in ancient history now given
what we've seen in the last 24 hours.
The Kremlin said it's still interested
in talks. Some pretty bleak words though
coming from the EU and not least
Friedrich Mertz tonight.
>> Yeah. And and from him that is that's
certainly a a change of tone through
this phase of sort of sick of fancy and
dishonesty and conversations with Donald
Trump tiptoeing around um his
sensitivities. It's perhaps the German
chancellor who has spoken with most
honesty and so he did tonight saying
what those European leaders have
probably known deep down for several
weeks now that actually there was very
little prospect um of a meeting between
Putin and Zilinski. They're now saying
it out loud. Of course, the crucial
voice here we haven't heard from yet is
President Trump himself. Earlier his
spokesperson said that there would be a
statement from him relating to this
situation. We haven't heard it yet.
Everyone is waiting to see what that
says. And perhaps European leaders will
be hoping that they see from him uh a
suggestion of of consideration of a new
wave of sanctions. And perhaps most
importantly, the acceptance or the
beginning of the acceptance that
actually Putin, after all, doesn't want
to deal.