Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to Make First Visit to Russia-Friendly Serbia
The leaders discussed EU membership, security and reconstruction aid as Serbia keeps ties with Moscow and Ukraine seeks more pressure on Russia.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Belgrade on Friday for his first visit to Serbia in eight years, meeting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as overnight Russian strikes killed at least four people in the Kyiv region.
- Overnight Russian drone and ballistic missile strikes on the Kyiv region killed four people, including a three-year-old child and his grandparents in Pukhivka, destroying a two-storey house and sparking warehouse fires.
- Moscow is deliberately exploiting a critical shortage of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors, the only system in Ukraine capable of shooting down ballistic missiles, as Kyiv faces regular hard-to-intercept barrages that deplete air defenses.
- Facing this vulnerability, Zelenskyy urged new sanctions to "prevent the production of these ballistic missiles" and noted that U.S.-approved Patriot manufacturing remains "stuck dealing with paperwork."
- Although Vucic reiterated that Serbia respects Ukraine's territorial integrity, he maintained his refusal to sanction Moscow, a stance that complicates Belgrade's path toward joining the European Union.
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"As large as Russian air defense may be, ammunition will eventually end up anyway, and we will continue to find technologies to respond, so that they too will suffer the consequences," said President Zelensky.
Ukraine is preparing a breakthrough of three rounds of air defence off the Russian capital.
Putin shields strategic targets: Zelensky admits Russia built three air‑defense rings around Moscow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has concentrated three layers of air defence around Moscow—redeploying systems from across the country—and has also reinforced St Petersburg and strategic energy and port infrastructure. He argues that Ukraine’s long-range drone operations can still penetrate these defences because interceptors and systems must eventually reload, replenish and be redistributed.
New Russian bombings on Kiev and its region resulted in at least four deaths and seven injuries on the night of Friday to Saturday, when Ukraine struggled to cope with the intensification of Russian strikes due to lack of ammunition.Source: https://www.france24.com/en/vid%C3%A9o/20260808-new-flashes-murtri%C3%A8res-%C3%A0-kiev-au-minus-4-morts-et-7-bles%C3%A9s Author: FRANCE24 Publish date: 2026-08-08 15:18:00 Copyright for syndicated content be…
Putin Keeps Hammering Kyiv With Missiles and Drones as Ukraine Is Running Out of Air Defenses
At least four people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed in Russian attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into Saturday, August 8, as Moscow launched another barrage of ballistic missiles and drones designed to exploit a growing weakness in Ukraine’s air defenses.
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