{"id":657904,"date":"2025-12-27T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:45:22","slug":"ukraine-russia-latest-zelensky-heads-to-us-for-trump-peace-talks-after-kyiv-hit-by-strikes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657904\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia latest: Zelensky heads to US for Trump peace talks after Kyiv hit by strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sound of explosions echoed through Kyiv all night longpublished at 11:58 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:58 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bf7f6f7e-e8ee-4e50-b417-003c85419d55.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Mohamed Madi<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from Kyiv<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rescue workers stand in rubble of building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6bd55c73-4d5b-4459-a86b-879e3eeb45c5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What set last night\u2019s attack apart was not necessarily the intensity, but the duration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For almost 10 hours, drones and missiles came in waves, sending Kyiv\u2019s residents into shelters in the night. The alert was not lifted in the capital until 11:00 this morning (09:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In that time, the sound of explosions echoed through the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We heard the whine of Shahed drones over the city centre, along with the attempts to shoot them down. Several times, we heard the deep rumble of an impact, and our windows shook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ballistic missile warnings continued to be issued through the early hours of the morning \u2013 unlike drones, they take minutes, not hours, to reach their target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, Ukraine says almost 500 drones and 40 missiles were launched towards Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of them targeted Ukraine\u2019s power infrastructure \u2013 and judging by the effects, some must have succeeded. This morning, a third of the capital was without power and heating, Kyiv\u2019s mayor Vitali Klitschko said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s a message from Russia ahead of President Zelensky\u2019s meeting with Trump tomorrow \u2013 that whenever it wants, across Ukraine, it can make the night hellish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sound of explosions echoed through Kyiv all night longpublished at 11:58 GMT 11:58 GMT Mohamed MadiReporting from Kyiv&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-657904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791838472874301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}