Keev had been spared the worst of
Russia's attacks while diplomacy was
going on, but not anymore. The worst
night since the war began, bar one, say
Ukrainian authorities. As missiles and
drones, more than 600 of them rain down.
While Putin plays lip service to peace
efforts, his military hit one civilian
building after another
with terrible human cost. One of the
worst death tolls in any night of
attacks. Arena made it to a shelter. Her
mother, now missing, did not.
>> We were together at first, but then I
went down to the shelter and she didn't.
When the explosion started, she came out
into the street and I called her. The
phone keeps ringing, but she still
hasn't been found.
>> The same tragic story with this man who
lost his wife and his son.
>> We went down to the basement shelter
with the children. They survived. My
daughter, my younger son, and I are
still here. But the two of them, they
didn't come down. They didn't come down.
Then the strike hit, and they were all
gone.
Russia says it was only targeting
military infrastructure. The pictures
tell a very different story, and the
number of drones and missiles fired each
night by Russia is increasing steadily.
Natalia describes what it's like to live
under such a constant threat.
At that 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.
>> Despite the Ukrainian suffering and
Russia's flagrant defiance of calls for
a ceasefire, there is still no effective
pressure from a divided West on Vladimir
Putin to relent. Deliberately or not,
this time it wasn't just Ukrainian
targets that were hit. a British council
and an EU building damaged too. Russia's
ambassador to the UK was summoned to the
Foreign Office in London following the
attack, saying nothing as he went in.
British Prime Minister Sakir Starmmer
posted this on X. Putin is killing
children and civilians and sabotaging
hopes of peace. This bloodshed must end.
And European Commission President Ursula
Vanderion joined the chorus of protests.
I'm outraged by the attack on KEF, also
hitting our EU offices.
This was the deadliest drone and missile
attack on the capital since July.
>> Ukraine carried out attacks, too,
releasing these pictures of a drone
attack on a Russian warship. And yet,
more Russian oil installations went up
in thick black smoke, prayed to
Ukraine's long range drone capability.
But while Ukraine hits strategic
targets, Russia's victims seem to have
been civilians struck with impunity.
While the West rings its hands in
outrage and condemnation, Vladimir Putin
can continue his war on the people of
Ukraine. It seems undeterred. Dominic
Waghorn, Sky News.