Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the visiting leaders from Nordic and Baltic countries at a flag-raising ceremony in Kyiv on Sunday, as Ukraine marked Ukraine’s National Flag Day.
\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Ukraine had ‘opened a pandora’s box’ after Kyiv aimed to damage the Russian economy. Putin said that Russia had began responding to Ukraine’s attacks on civilian industrial and logistics facilities and that Kyiv can not and will not gain any advantage.
\n\nUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
\n\nA woman walks across the debris in the aftermath of an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
\n\nDenmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Mariinskyi Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
\n\nValentyna Svertoka, 86, leans against a doorframe as she cleans her apartment in a partially damaged residential building the day after a Russian missile and drone attack in Kyiv, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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