Air raid sirens sound in Kiev and across Ukraine as EU summit begins

Air raid alerts sounded in Kyiv and across Ukraine on Friday as a summit of European Union and Ukrainian leaders was due to begin in the country’s capital.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was hosting top European Union officials, who were visiting Kyiv with promises to support Ukraine “as long as it takes” but denying the country at war with Russia a quick path to joining the Western bloc.

Zelenskyy was hosting EU chairman Charles Michel and the bloc’s chief executive, Ursula von der Leyen