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KYIV – Russian attacks in Ukraine wounded at least 14 civilians over the last day, officers stated Saturday, because the president of the European Commission returned to the Ukrainian capital to satisfy with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The governor of the Zaporizhzhia area, Yurii Malashko, stated 9 other people had been injured in a Russian rocket strike at the village of Zarichne. Overall, 26 towns and settlements in the area got here underneath assault over the last day, he stated.
In the Kherson area, 5 other people had been injured, stated Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin. He stated attacks in the area got here from artillery, mortars, drones, warplanes and tanks.
Nikopol, a town of the other financial institution of the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s biggest, got here underneath hearth however no accidents had been straight away reported, in keeping with Dnipropetrovsk regional Gov. Serhii Lysak.
European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on Saturday morning and used to be met via Zelenskyy on the teach station.
She wrote on X, previously Twitter, that talks all over her 6th consult with would focal point at the trail for Ukraine to sign up for the European Union “and how we will continue to make Russia pay for its war of aggression.”
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