Kyiv:
Airstrikes sounded in Kiev and across Ukraine on Friday, as a summit of European Union and Ukraine leaders was due to begin in the country’s capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy received top European Union officials, who visited Kiev with promises to support Ukraine “as long as it takes”, but denied the country at war with Russia a fast track to joining the Western Bloc.
Zelenskiy hosted EU President Charles Michel and the bloc’s top executive, Ursula von der Leyen, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Moscow that destroyed cities, killed tens of thousands, forced millions from their homes and global food and energy supplies.
“The EU will support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people against Russia’s continued war of aggression for as long as necessary,” the three leaders will say in a joint statement, a draft of which Reuters has seen in advance.
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