Russia launched a heightened attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, with Ukraine’s army saying it intercepted all 18 missiles that had targeted the country.
(Bloomberg) — Russia launched a heightened attack on Kyiv early Tuesday, with Ukraine’s army saying it intercepted all 18 missiles that had targeted the country.
Debris from the intercepted missiles set fire to several cars and damaged at least one building in the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. At least three people were injured in what was the eighth attack on Kyiv by Russian forces this month.
European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz join the two-day Council of Europe meeting in Reykjavik Tuesday to discuss threats to human rights and how to support Ukraine.
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Sweden Says More Sanctions Needed, Must Close Loopholes (9:12 a.m.)
The European Union will need further sanctions packages against Russia but it must make sure the existing ones work and that loopholes are closed, Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson said.
“We can have many more sanctions packages, we will need to have that, but we also need to see that everyone is really implementing it, using it as it should,” she said on the sidelines of a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels. “We need more sanctions but we have to see that sanctions we have do work.”
Ukraine Supreme Court Is Focus of Graft Inquiry (9:12 a.m.)
Ukrainian investigators found “large-scale corruption” at the Supreme Court, amid pressure on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government to root out graft as a condition for joining the EU.
Some judges on the court received “illegal gains,” the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, or NABU, and anti-corruption prosecutors said, without giving further details.
NABU announced the investigation late Monday in a statement on Facebook. Calls to the Supreme Court weren’t immediately answered.
France Is Ready to Train Ukraine Fighter Pilots, Macron Says (9:12 a.m.)
Macron told the TF1 TV network that French training for Ukrainian fighter pilots would be coordinated with other European countries and added that discussions are also ongoing with the US.
While not ruling out a change in approach, the US hasn’t disavowed its position that providing Ukraine with fighter jets would be unnecessarily provocative. Macron’s comments came a day after the French leader hosted Zelenskiy for a working dinner in Paris.
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