Zelenskyy discusses ‘urgent need to scale up’ air defences with key allies in London

7 June 2026 at 22:50

Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street after Russia fires hypersonic weapons at Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of the UK, France and Germany discussed “the urgent need to scale up” Ukraine’s air defences and deep-strike capabilities in London on Sunday night, after Russia fired hypersonic weapons at Ukraine, Downing Street said.

The meeting of Ukraine’s staunchest allies in London came hours after a Russian drone strike damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl

The Guardian - World news

By: Peter Beaumont in Kyiv

7 June 2026 at 12:39

Attack was ‘extremely vile’ and deliberate, says Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy

A Russian Shahed drone has substantially damaged a building used to store spent nuclear fuel close to the disused Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in what Ukraine’s president described as a deliberate and “extremely vile” attack.

While the structure – the reception building of the spent fuel storage facility – was empty of containers at the time, the targeting of the sensitive site appeared to be direct messaging from Moscow amid an intensifying battle of long-range aerial strikes in which high-profile locations on both sides have been hit.

“Ataque sem precedentes”. A Ucrânia levou a guerra ao centro simbólico do poder russo

ZAP Notícias

By: AFP

7 June 2026 at 06:00

Num momento em que a diplomacia volta a falhar, vagas de drones ucranianos chegaram à região de São Petersburgo, centro simbólico do poder russo, testando as defesas aéreas da cidade numa altura em que ali decorria o “Davos da Rússia”. A Ucrânia lançou este sábado centenas de drones contra a Rússia, provocando a morte de uma pessoa e um incêndio num depósito petrolífero no último dia da 29.ª edição do St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, o principal fórum económico do país, frequentemente descrito como o “Davos russo”. Muitos dos drones tiveram como alvo a própria cidade de São Petersburgo, onde

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