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          the secret to “KPop Demon Hunters.”
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              Kyiv after Russia’s assault yesterday.
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          Russia’s biggest strike on Kyiv since the Trump talks
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          An hourslong barrage of missiles and drones aimed at Kyiv yesterday
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          killed at least 18 people
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          , including four children, officials said. The assault, the largest on the capital in the less than two weeks since President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, showed that America’s recent flurry of diplomacy has not brought Russia and Ukraine any closer to peace.
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          “Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table,” Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, wrote on social media. “It chooses to continue killing instead of ending the war. And this means that Russia still does not fear the consequences.”
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          Trump has voiced frustration with Putin’s assaults on Ukraine. But he has not followed through on threats to impose new sanctions against Russia.
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          E.U. mission hit:
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          Buildings belonging to the E.U. mission and the British Council in Kyiv suffered damage in the attack. Britain said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the attack. Here is
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          Next steps:
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          Zelensky said that his chief of staff and the head of the country’s security council would meet with Trump’s team today in New York to discuss security guarantees to be included in any future peace agreement.
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          over routes the U.S. and its allies use to ship military supplies through Germany, Western officials said.
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