Raid on Kyiv during Merz's visit, Zelensky: Washington wants a trilateral meeting by October

Kyiv was hit by a Russian attack during the hours when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was visiting the Ukrainian capital. The timing coincidence between the raid and the presence of the German head of government is the central point reported by Italian press reviews from October 5, according to Sarno Notizie and Sky TG24.

Initial reports indicate that a bridge was reportedly damaged during the attack. This is a detail not yet definitively confirmed: the news is currently circulating through front-page reviews, not through direct accounts from sources on the ground, and it is not currently possible to establish with certainty how many independent sources support the claim about the bridge. The number of any casualties or injured persons is not specified by the available sources.

Visits by Western leaders to Kyiv during Russian attacks are not new in the course of the war, but the fact that the raid hit the city precisely while the German chancellor was present revives the issue of security for Western diplomatic missions on Ukrainian territory, a theme that has accompanied the movements of European heads of government to Kyiv since the beginning of the conflict.

On the diplomatic front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the United States is proposing a trilateral meeting by the month of October. The sources consulted do not specify which other parties would be involved in the meeting or the planned agenda: the information, for now, remains limited to the announcement reported by Zelensky.

The news as a whole comes from front-page reviews of two Italian outlets, Sarno Notizie and Sky TG24, which gather the account without adding independent details on casualties, extent of damage, or direct military sources. No independent confirmation of the detail regarding the damaged bridge is currently available.