Russia pounds Kyiv with drone strikes as Zelenskiy addresses the UN - Reuters — SkimNews
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- Russia pounded Kyiv with drone strikes in an all-day bombing attack timed to President Zelenskyy's address at the UN, according to Reuters and Politico.
- The Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine and damaged a maternity clinic, as the US stepped up diplomacy around the conflict, per Reuters and Al Jazeera.
Why it matters: The collision of timing — Russian strikes hitting civilian infrastructure including a maternity clinic while Zelenskyy pleaded his case at the UN — makes the US diplomatic push harder to ignore and raises the political cost of inaction for Western capitals still weighing their response.
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