Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv to announce new defence initiatives as Ukraine and Russia exchange strikes – Europe live

In Brussels EU ambassadors will be trying to work out the details of the 21st sanctions package for RussiaMeanwhile, Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nausėda warned that Russia could be planning attacks on infrastructure, with security around energy and transport sites to be tightened as a precaution.Speaking with BNS news agency, Nausėda appeared to confirm growing concerns, reported in the Guardian too, that Russia could be looking to escalate against one of the Baltic countries or Poland.“I cannot deny that we have such information and that it concerns kinetic operations – not on a large scale, but targeted kinetic operations that are