New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- On Monday morning, a Ukrainian drone struck a residential district of Krasnodar in southern Russia, with debris from one of the intercepted munitions falling on a childcare centre and injuring children. Hours later, 1,200 kilometres to the west, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a queue of European leaders at a formal gathering in Kyiv to mark Ukraine's 35th Independence Day.

a Ukrainian drone killed two women in the Kharkiv region after striking an electric train, and Russian debris struck children in Russia's south. It was the context in which leaders arrived to say they were still committed to ending the Russia Ukraine war.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham flew to Kyiv for the occasion, becomin...