Russian leader Vladimir Putin has ignored international outrage over Russia’s strikes on UK and EU buildings and has continued to pound Ukraine.

It comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calls on Western allies to send a ‘strong joint signal’ to the Kremlin.

In one of its deadliest onslaughts since the start of the three and a half year war, Moscow launched ‘egregious’ attacks on civilian targets in Kyiv on Thursday, including the EU delegation and British Council buildings.

The total death toll for the major offensive has risen to 23, including four children. Some 63 others have been injured including 11 minors. 

But Putin brushed aside the world’s revulsion and carried on attacking Ukraine overnight – killing civilians in Kherson, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia.

The strikes on Thursday, which are understood to have included 629 drones and 31 ballistic and cruise missiles, were widely condemned by the U.S. and European leaders – who accused Moscow of derailing peace talks just two weeks after the Alaska summit. 

Strong Reactions

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer accused Putin of ‘sabotaging hopes of peace’, while a Foreign Office spokesperson added that the ‘outrageous attacks’ will ‘only harden UK and Western resolve to support Ukraine’.

Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy issued a statement on X condemning the strikes, which he described as the second-largest aerial attack of the war so far.

‘The targets? Not soldiers and weapons but residential areas in Kyiv—blasting civilian trains, the EU & British mission council offices, and innocent civilians,’ he wrote.