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Zelenskyy says Russian drone strike targeted Ukraine’s intelligence headquarters

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

Translated from Icelandic and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched a drone attack on the SBU headquarters in Kyiv and accused Moscow of directly targeting the intelligence chief’s office.
  • Ukraine’s foreign minister called the strike a “major escalation,” while a senior official said SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad was not at the site.
  • Zelenskyy said he had ordered Ukraine’s intelligence service to respond appropriately.

A Russian drone strike hit the building of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy accused Russia of aiming directly at the office of the intelligence chief and said he had ordered Ukraine’s intelligence service to respond appropriately. A senior Ukrainian official told AFP that SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad was not at the site when the attack took place.

Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga described the strike as a “major escalation.” The attack came two days after Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were due to visit Kyiv for the first time, according to a senior Ukrainian official.

People watched firefighters try to extinguish a blaze at the intelligence service building after the attack.

Major escalation.

· Andriy SybigaUkraine’s foreign minister described the Russian strike on the SBU building.
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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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