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After a night of intense bombardment by Russia, Ukrainian search and rescue teams are still picking through the rubble.

It was Russia's deadliest onslaught on Kyiv since July, leaving at least 19 dead, including four children.

Ukraine's capital felt the brunt of it, with one resident telling the BBC she woke up to a missile coming down on a residential block near her flat in central Kyiv.

Among the buildings damaged were office spaces for the EU delegation and the British Council. No one was killed, but Kyiv's allies were quick to condemn the attack.

The UK government summoned Russia's ambassador to "make clear" further attacks will only strengthen the UK and Europe's resolve to support Ukraine.

In a personal phone call with Zelensky, Ursula von der Leyen conveyed her solidarity, while the EU's top diplomat said Moscow was mocking peace efforts. Moscow's envoy to Brussels was also summoned.

Tomorrow, Ukraine's security council chief Rustem Umerov and other officials will meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff in New York to discuss the "military, political and economic components of security guarantees" for Ukraine.

But with no new progress following weeks of diplomacy, the war drags on.

We’ll be ending our coverage shortly. You can read more about last night’s Russian strikes in our stories:

• Lives torn apart in Kyiv after Russia's heaviest bombardment for weeks
• European leaders outraged after Russian strikes kill 19 and damage EU's HQ
• UK summons Russian ambassador over Ukraine strikes

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

At the White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just briefly addressed last night's strikes on Kyiv.

According to Leavitt, President Trump said he was "not happy, but also not surprised".

She also notes that Ukrainian forces have struck Russian oil facilities.

"Perhaps both sides of this war are not ready to end it," she says.

Leavitt adds that she believes Trump may make a further statement on the conflict later today.

Russia's foreign ministry is blaming Ukraine's air defences and "electronic warfare systems" for its strikes that damaged the EU delegation office in Kyiv and other civilian buildings overnight.

"We would like to confirm once again that the Russian Armed Forces are striking only at military facilities and support facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," a foreign ministry spokesperson says.

There is no evidence to support Moscow's claims. Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight killed at least 19 people, including four children.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

European leaders won’t have been under any illusions that a diplomatic breakthrough was imminent. But that doesn’t lessen the sense of shock and anger.

As the Russian ambassador in London was summoned to the Foreign Office, the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, said President Putin was sabotaging hopes of peace.

Speaking in Brussels, in front of a large image of the EU’s damaged premises in Kyiv, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she, too, was outraged.

Other furious reactions came from France and Germany. The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said last night’s attacks showed what he called “the growing unscrupulousness of the Russian regime".

The White House’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellog, described the airstrikes as egregious and a threat to President Trump's attempts at a peace deal.

In Moscow, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said Russia was still interested in talks, and he accused Ukraine of attacking Russia’s civilian infrastructure - two more Russian oil refineries were hit last night, part of an ongoing campaign by Kyiv.

But since Donald Trump’s high-profile interventions – the summit in Alaska and subsequent gathering of EU leaders in Washington – diplomatic efforts to end the conflict appear to have ground to a halt.

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The head of the British Council in Ukraine says he doesn't want to speculate on whether or not Russian forces intentionally targeted his offices in a series of attacks on Kyiv overnight.

Offices for the British Council are severely damaged and will be closed until further notice, Colm McGivern tells Radio 4's PM programme.

"What I do think is intentional," McGivern adds, "is Russia's continued attacks on education and cultural infrastructure in Ukraine."

"The British Council is steadfastly determined that we will continue to support... education and cultural links for Ukraine with the UK."

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The Italian prime minister is joining the chorus of European leaders condemning Russia's overnight attacks on Ukraine.

Giorgia Meloni writes on X that the latest strikes show "who stands on the side of peace and who has no intention of believing" in negotiations.

"Our thoughts go to the Ukrainian people, to civilians, to the families of defenseless victims, including children, of the senseless Russian attacks," she writes.

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UN secretary-general António Guterres says Russia's strikes on Ukrainian cities overnight that killed at least 19 civilians are "unacceptable" and must end immediately.

The attacks also damaged the office space of the EU diplomatic delegation in Kyiv as well as the the British Council offices.

"Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure violate international humanitarian law," says Guterres through a spokesman.

"The Secretary-General renews his call for a ceasefire that results in a just, comprehensive, and sustainable peace in Ukraine," the spokesman adds.

Nato chief Mark Rutte has also condemned Russia's "terrible attacks".

"We need to ensure Ukraine has what it needs to defend itself and secure a lasting peace," he says on social media.

Nabiha Ahmed
Live reporter

Of the buildings destroyed in the recent Russians strikes in Ukraine, one is Honey Café in central Kyiv.

Owner Stanislav Zavertailo says his much-loved café, a favourite amongst Kyiv residents, has been almost completely destroyed.

"It's been a place for people in Kyiv to find joy, and to find some light during this war," he tells me.

Whilst Stanislav says this branch of his café hadn't even celebrated its first anniversary, he says a decade's worth of work went into opening it.

"This is incredibly painful for me. It will take a minimum of months to rebuild it. This is so hard to understand."

Verified locations of damage in Kyiv after Russian attackpublished at 16:45 BST 28 August

16:45 BST 28 August

By Peter Mwai and Richard Irvine-Brown

Between 16 videos and nine photographs from Kyiv today, we’ve confirmed four locations across the Ukrainian capital with evidence of overnight Russian strikes.

As well as the strike in the city centre we’ve also seen footage of an explosion to the south west at the Nova Anglia residential complex. Other video shows two of the high-rise buildings there missing windows and the ground in between them covered in panes of glass.

Meanwhile, in Berezniaky on the east bank of the Dnipro river, tiles and fixtures were blown off the north facade of a nine-storey block, with two burned-out cars in front of it.

There’s also footage from the aftermath of a reported strike in Darnytsia, east of the city centre. Video from there - some of it filmed by the State Emergency Service - shows four storeys of an apartment building turned to rubble.

In their latest update, Ukrainian officials say 19 people were killed, including four children, in the overnight attacks.

Additional verification by Paul Brown and Joshua Cheetham

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If you're just joining us this afternoon, here's a brief recap of what's happened today so far:

• The total death toll in what is Russia's deadliest onslaught on Kyiv since July has gone up to 19 - including four children. Dozens more have been injured

• Local media is reporting that Russian forces struck a Ukrainian warship, killing at least one crew member

• Multiple residential districts across the Ukrainian capital were struck in the major offensive. The EU delegation and British Council buildings, as well as the Azerbaijani Embassy and a Turkish enterprise, were also damaged
• After condemning Russia's "massive attack", Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky calls for "new, tough sanctions" on Moscow. Meanwhile, Kyiv's mayor has declared a day of mourning on Friday - the same day talks between US and Ukrainian officials are due to take place in New York
• Zelensky also says on X that work on security guarantees for Ukraine is ongoing and a detailed "framework" will be set out by next week

• The Russian ambassador to the UK and the Russian envoy to the EU have been summoned to address the latest attacks, with the UK Foreign Office warning that further strikes will "only harden" British and European resolve to support Ukraine

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A little earlier, Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, condemned last night's strikes - which he says were the second-largest aerial attack of the war.

"The targets? Not soldiers and weapons but residential areas in Kyiv—blasting civilian trains, the EU & British mission council offices, and innocent civilians," he writes in a post on X.

"These egregious attacks threaten the peace that @POTUS is pursuing," he writes.

In a further post on Telegram following a call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Zelensky says there has been much talk about security guarantees following Russia's most recent overnight strikes on Ukraine.

These will be finalised next week, he says.

"National security advisers are currently working on each specific component, and next week the entire configuration will be on paper," he adds.

The Ukrainian president also says that last night's strikes hit a Turkish enterprise and the Azerbaijani Embassy in Kyiv.

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We're now hearing more from Zelensky following his conversation with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen a little earlier.

In a post on his official Telegram account, the Ukrainian leader thanks her for her "sympathy and solidarity" with the Ukrainian people.

"Tonight was one of the biggest strikes on Ukraine," he says, referring to Russian attacks overnight that killed at least 18 people.

"The Russians chose Kyiv as their main target. The search and rescue operation is still ongoing."

He adds the pair discussed diplomacy, preparations for a 19th tranche of EU sanctions on Moscow, and a path for Ukraine's integration with Europe.

"Thank you to everyone who supports Ukraine now and is not silent," the post reads.

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We can bring you some more now from the British Council, which had its Kyiv office damaged in Russia's overnight strike.

We reported earlier that a guard working at the office was injured and being treated in hospital. A spokesperson for the organisation has now confirmed that he is in stable condition.

They add that all their other colleagues are safe and accounted for.

The British Council works to promote cultural relationships between the UK and other countries and has been active in Ukraine for the past 30 years.

The British Foreign Office has issued a new statement after the summons of Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin earlier this afternoon.

A spokesperson describes the overnight Russian strikes in Kyiv as "outrageous attacks" as they condemn the damage done to British Council and EU mission buildings in the Ukrainian capital.

They add that they have "made clear" to the Russian ambassador that such action "will only harden UK and Western resolve to support Ukraine".

"Russia must stop this senseless killing and destruction immediately," says the Foreign Office.

One more person has been confirmed dead following overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine, bringing the total death toll to 18, officials say.

"As of 3:00pm [13:00 BST], the number of dead in Kyiv has increased to 18 people, four of them children," Ukraine's state emergency service says in a post on its Telegram channel.

Russian forces have struck a Ukrainian warship, multiple Ukrainian media outlets have been reporting.

Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk confirmed the attack to local news agencies, adding that one crew member had died and several others had been wounded.

In a statement shared on Telegram, Russia's ministry of defence says it sank one of Ukraine's most valuable warships using an unmanned speedboat.

They say they hit the medium sized ship, called Simferopol, at the mouth of the Danube river.

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As we mentioned earlier, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned last night's attacks, writing on X that "Putin is killing children and civilians, and sabotaging hopes of peace. This bloodshed must end".

Earlier this month, he was one of several European leaders who accompanied Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington for his meeting with Donald Trump, which came days after the US leader met Vladimir Putin for a summit that failed to result in a ceasefire.

Trump was overheard on a hot mic telling Emmanuel Macron that he thought Putin "wants to make a deal for me". But today, the French President says last night's strikes were "Russia's idea of peace. Terror and barbarism".

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has also reacted to the strikes, saying that Russia "showed its true face again last night".

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The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, says she's spoken to Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump on Russia's strike on Kyiv.

"Putin must come to the negotiating table," she writes in a post on X.

"We must secure a just and lasting peace for Ukraine with firm and credible security guarantees that will turn the country into a steel porcupine."

Earlier she said she was "outraged" by Russia's attack, calling it "an attack also on our EU delegation".

Locating areas of Ukraine hit by Russian strikespublished at 13:56 BST 28 August

13:56 BST 28 August

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By Joshua Cheetham and Richard Irvine-Brown, BBC Verify

Among the images emerging from the latest Russian strikes against Kyiv, we’ve been looking at one dramatic clip circulating on social media.

It appears to be from CCTV footage and shows a missile hitting an apartment complex.

We’ve confirmed the building struck was just across the street from the British Council’s office in the city centre.

It’s in an affluent area called Cherepanova Hora which is home to major attractions like the Kyiv Planetarium and Olympic Stadium.

The attacks across the city have killed at least 17 people, including four children, and wounded dozens of others according to Ukrainian officials.