‘Situation difficult’: Zelensky in Moscow ally Serbia as Russian strikes kill 4 in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the situation in his war-torn country as “difficult” during a visit to Serbia, one of the few European countries to have maintained close ties with Russia throughout Moscow’s ongoing war against Kyiv, now in its fifth year.“The situation in Ukraine is difficult,” Zelensky told a press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on Saturday, referring to an overnight missile strike involving ballistic missiles targeting infrastructure, as well as attack drones.Four people, including a child, were killed in the strikes on the capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region, while Ukrainian forces retaliated by targeting Russian oil facilities.Zelensky arrived in Belgrade on Friday, marking the first visit by a Ukrainian president to Serbia in eight years.He claimed that deliveries of US-made Patriot air defence interceptors, the only system in Kyiv’s arsenal capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, have “slowed” compared with a year ago.“There are fewer of these missiles in 2026. In 2025 there were more, I’ll tell you honestly, in terms of monthly supplies,” he told reporter...