European leaders have condemned Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily ease sanctions on Russian oil as Vladimir Putin’s forces continued to bombard Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired 430 drones and nearly 70 missiles in a massive attack overnight into Saturday morning.
He said the strikes primarily targeted Kyiv’s energy infrastructure but hit a host of other civilian buildings, killing at least four people.
Poland briefly scrambled its jets in response.
Earlier, Trump issued a 30-day waiver on war-related sanctions to allow countries to buy Russian oil and petroleum products.
Zelensky warned the move could divert as much as $10bn to Putin’s war chest. European Council president Antonio Costa called it “very concerning”, and German chancellor Friedrich Merz criticised it as the “wrong” decision.
Zelensky expressed frustration over waning attention on the Ukraine war amid the crisis with Iran, saying it was “understandable that the attention of the world is moving to the Middle East” but that “it’s not good for us”.
