European leaders are outraged after Russian strikes kill 21 and damage Eus headquarters and damage the EU headquarters

The head of the European Union’s executive commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has spoken of her outrage over the most fatal rush of Russia in Kyiv – which also damaged the EU’s delegation office in the Ukrainian capital.

At least 21 people, including four children, were killed in the bombing and dozens more wounded, the Ukrainian officials said.

A five-story residential building was destroyed and the EU mission and the nearby British Council were damaged.

In a strongly formulated explanation, from Leyen said that Russian rockets were hit in the immediate vicinity of the diplomatic mission: “Two rockets hit the delegation within 20 seconds of 50 m (165 feet).”

According to the Ukrainian armed forces, Russia fired almost 600 drones and more than 30 ballistic and cruise rockets – the biggest attack on the capital this month.

Many of the people killed were in the five -story residential building in the southeastern district of Darnskyi on Kyiv’s Left Bank.

A rocket tore through the flat block at 3:00 a.m., causing it to collapse.

The excavators removed debris and rescue workers argued to smoke parts of the building that were looking for survivors.

Officials said three of the children killed were two, 14 and 17 years old. Several other young people were wounded.

The overnight attacks followed a diplomatic offensive led by the USA, which aimed to end the war and made the United Kingdom and the EU angry.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer accused the Russia’s Vladimir Putin “Sabotaging hopes on peace”, while the EU foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, said “they showed a deliberate decision to escalate and mocked peace efforts”.

Moscow had chosen “ballistics instead of the negotiating table”, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who repeated the need for “new, hard sanctions” against Russia.

Although the Kremlin said that Russia was “still interested in negotiations,” said von der Leyen that the strikes were “another dark memory” that Russia would “stop” to terrorize Ukraine “, kill men, women and children and even target the EU.

The US special representative in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said Russia’s “enormous attacks” threatened to peace, which President Donald Trump followed.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Russia had “again” showed his true face “, and the fact that the EU delegation was under fire was an indication of the increasing bone of the Kremlin.

An EU spokeswoman said no diplomatic mission should ever be targeted and the Russian indictment in Brussels had been called for the attack in response to the attack.

Russia’s ambassador in Great Britain, Andrei Kelin, was called to the foreign office.

Zelensky said the attack on the cities and municipalities of Ukraine was a clear reaction of the Kremlin to everyone who had asked for weeks and months for an armistice and real diplomacy.

The wave of the rockets came after more than 100,000 Ukrainian houses without power had been left back to the energy infrastructure without power by Russian drone attacks. Another 60,000 consumers were left in the Central Vinnytsia region in the last attacks without power, officials said.

The Russian armed forces also met a Ukrainian naval ship that killed a member of the crew and wounded several others. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that an unmanly speedboat used to aim to aim the River’s mouth in the mouth of the Danube, although the Ukraine military gave no details where the attack took place.

The President of the European Council, António Costa, said that he was “horrified” by the recent Russian attacks On Kyiv.

The British Council, which promotes cultural relationships with other countries and is housed in the same block as the EU mission, said his office was badly damaged and would be closed for visitors.

Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU had prepared a 19th sanction package against Russia and announced that they would visit seven EU member states that shared a border with Russia and its allied Belarus in the next few days.

The Commission said that it would travel to Latvia and Finland on Friday before driving to Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Romania.

President Trump had hoped to organize a summit with Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end the war, but these efforts have stalled since then.

He met Putin for the first time in Alaska before talks with Zelensky and European leader in Washington.

The President of Ukraine supported the step, but the Kremlin played every chance of a Putin-Zelensky summit.

Despite the last setback, US officials will have talks on Friday with a Ukrainian delegation in New York. Zelensky said they would discuss “military, political and economic components of the security guarantees” for Ukraine.

Ukraine works with its European allies on guarantees to prevent future Russian attacks in the event of a peace agreement. Zelensky had talks in Kyiv this week with the head of the British armed forces, ADM Sir Tony Radakin.

Russia says that there are no European troops on site and says that the meeting is a “way to nowhere” without Moscow.