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Europe Today: Ucrania busca financiación urgente en Bruselas mientras los drones rusos no dan tregua en Kiev
En Bruselas, aliados de la UE buscan fondos para Ucrania mientras Rusia lanza 120 drones contra Kiev, uno contra la Academia de Ciencias. En Metz, el papa León XIV elogia el multilateralismo y advierte contra la dominación.
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En Bruselas, aliados de la UE buscan fondos para Ucrania mientras Rusia lanza 120 drones contra Kiev, uno contra la Academia de Ciencias. En Metz, el papa León XIV elogia el multilateralismo y advierte contra la dominación.
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00:14Good morning, it's Tuesday, September 29th, you're watching Euronews and this is Europe Today.
00:22Coming up, Ukraine is turning to international partners to help cover its wartime spending needs
00:28with Brussels set to bring together donor countries and financial institutions later today.
00:34Ukraine has cut its 24 billion euro funding shortfall to 18 billion euro through austerity measures,
00:41but it's unclear how the remaining gap can be plugged.
00:45Russia's recent escalation has added urgency to the search for funding.
00:50Pope Leo XIV has praised multilateralism as the best defense against the desire for dominance.
00:57And a speech in the French city of Metz.
00:59The pontiff lamented a world marked by conflict, from war and hunger to deteriorating personal relations,
01:06describing an increasingly uncivilized climate.
01:10He also criticized the lies and deception, he said, were fueling growing distrust between citizens and governments.
01:17And Euronews is hosting its Travel and Tourism Summit 2026 in Brussels today,
01:24bringing together policymakers, industry leaders and travel experts from across Europe and beyond.
01:30The summit examines the policies, technologies and investments shaping tomorrow's travel landscape,
01:36from sustainable mobility and destination management to infrastructure and tourism investment.
01:42Welcome to the program. I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:46Russia launched more than 120 drones at Ukraine on Monday,
01:50with President Zelensky saying almost 90 of them were faster jet-powered models.
01:56In Kiev, a medical center was hit while another jet-powered drone struck the National Academy of Sciences
02:01in the heart of the capital in broad daylight.
02:04And while emergency crews were still working at the academy,
02:09our team witnessed what appeared to be an attempted double-tap attack aimed at rescue workers,
02:15with another Russian drone intercepted directly above the site.
02:19Our correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, was there and joins us now from Kiev.
02:24Sasha, you were at the scene when that second drone came in. What did you see?
02:33Another night of relentless non-stop attacks here in Kiev when Russia used both missiles and also drones,
02:38including those jet-powered drones.
02:40And I think it's important to look at what is it that Moscow is trying to target.
02:44Now, some of the targets are the sites that we have seen Moscow trying to hit throughout the war.
02:50First of all, this is, of course, energy infrastructure.
02:53On Monday, Euronews was filming at the site of an energy site of one of the recent Russia's attacks in
02:59the Kyiv region.
03:00But we had to stop the filming and we had to seek shelter because there was another drone approaching the
03:06same site,
03:08probably trying to hit the crews and the people working on fixing that energy site.
03:14But also Moscow is increasingly targeting data centers and communication infrastructure.
03:19And you can already feel this here in Kyiv with the internet connection and the mobile networks going rather patchy.
03:26And this is, of course, problematic both for the people in Ukraine,
03:29but also for Ukraine's military and the air defense.
03:32But most of Russia's strikes also are hitting residential and other civilian sites.
03:39One example is National Academy of Sciences here in the very center of Kyiv.
03:44Now, emergency services working here confirmed to Euronews that this was most probably direct hit by Russia's jet-powered drones.
03:55And that brings us to this big problem that Kyiv and Ukrainian authorities are facing now is these drones and
04:00how to counter them.
04:01Hody Mazelensky said yesterday that Ukraine's interception rate when it comes to all of the drones stands at around 70%.
04:07When it comes to the jet-powered drones, those faster new ones, this is around 57%.
04:14Ukraine is indeed these days testing the new interceptors to counter them,
04:19but this is increasingly becoming a technological race.
04:21The way Russia adapts its weapons and tactics,
04:24and then Ukraine is adapting and trying to intercept the new weapons and do that as quickly as it can.
04:32Because, of course, these are the attacks on the residents, on the people of Ukraine.
04:38Euronews crew were at the National Academy of Science in the immediate aftermath of Russia's attacks.
04:44And with the emergency crews still working there at the center, another Russian drone was coming towards our way,
04:51and we had to seek shelter in what was apparently Moscow's attempt to attack the rescue workers working there on
05:01the site.
05:01Take a look at what happened on Monday.
05:10We are standing right at the site of the attack here in Kyiv's city center.
05:15This here is the National Academy of Science which was hit earlier.
05:20And as the rescue teams are working here, as you can see, there was another attempted attack right now,
05:26with the air defense intercepting another drone right above the site.
05:36At around half past one, there was a direct hit.
05:39A jet-powered drone struck a three-story building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
05:45Can you confirm that this is a civilian building?
05:48That's the building. You can see it right at the entrance.
05:51That's the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Nothing else.
05:55Here, it's basically a business center and other buildings.
06:01We're standing at the site of a Russian drone attack in the very center of Kyiv.
06:06The capital's emergency service has confirmed to Euronews that this was a direct hit by jet-powered drones.
06:14Now, these are newer, faster drones that Russia has been using a lot these days.
06:19And in fact, there are no breaks between the air raid alerts and the drone attacks in the capital these
06:25days.
06:26And you can see the rescue workers here working right behind me.
06:29The emergency services also confirmed that here in the center of Kyiv, next to this building,
06:33And in the building itself, there are no military targets.
06:36This is the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
06:45All right, Sasha Vakulina, thank you very much for this update under the most stressful conditions.
06:52But it's not only the capital Kyiv that was pounded by Russian strikes.
06:56In rural areas, Ukraine's agricultural economy is directly targeted, including export routes in the Black Sea.
07:04Our correspondent, Merit Gwynn, spoke to the Ukrainian agriculture minister Taras Vysotsky
07:09and asked him whether the country could still rely on its main export corridor.
07:15Unfortunately, since the end of July, that's already for two months, the situation is really critical.
07:23We are not able to export agricultural commodities through our deep water ports of Odessa region.
07:30Why it is so critical? Just an example, in June 2026, 90% of agricultural commodities were exported through this
07:44channel.
07:44That means that the biggest and the main channel of export logistics has been closed since the end of July.
07:54And what can Ukraine's partners do here? Is it about providing more protection in the Black Sea?
08:01Is it about opening alternative export routes, for example, for the Baltics?
08:05Or are you at a point where you say, actually, we need a broken deal with Russia?
08:11We are currently working with our partners, including the European ones, simultaneously on a few tracks.
08:19One of them is to develop EU solidarity lanes, that's alternative routes.
08:26And so far, we have some progress.
08:29When we look at the September numbers, we can state that around 40-45% of export is done through
08:39these EU solidarity lanes.
08:41Definitely, we keep working on protection, because we do understand the best guarantee instrument is to have enough military forces,
08:50military power to protect these routes from all of these rocket efforts.
08:56And also, we are ready to create the safety conditions in the Black Sea for all of the civil goods,
09:04including Ukrainian agricultural commodities.
09:05We are open for it.
09:07And do you think that impact on pricing for consumers could be felt beyond Ukraine's borders as well, if this
09:14crisis persists in the Black Sea?
09:16Actually, it's already happening.
09:19We can already see that on average, the grain prices have increased by 25%, and this is a lot.
09:2925%, it means if you multiply it for the overall grain and food consumption out of grain within a year,
09:38it could be even up to 60 billion US dollars additional costs of all of the consumers' consumers' Roosevelt.
09:46The price increase is already happening.
09:48Finally, Minister, we see that Russia is really stepping up its strikes on Ukraine.
09:55The winter is coming.
09:56How fearful are you now, both for Ukrainian farmers in terms of the impact on them, but also broader for
10:05the country going into this winter?
10:07Of course, during all of these almost five years of full-scale invasion, we have been constantly preparing.
10:14Ukrainians are resilient, but it's very hard.
10:17Of course, the level of risks currently is the biggest since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
10:23And it's very hard really to prepare just for everything.
10:28So, first of all, the focus is on military air defense systems.
10:33It's very critical to have enough of military air defense systems to save all of this infrastructure.
10:42Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Wisotsky speaking to Merit.
10:47Gwyn.
10:47As the war in Ukraine continues, Europe faces a difficult question.
10:52How far is it prepared to go to support Kiev and increase pressure on Moscow?
10:57From sanctions and financial aid to military support and the growing threat of Russian hybrid attacks across Europe,
11:04the EU is trying to balance solidarity with Ukraine against the rising costs and risks at home.
11:11To talk about this, I'm now joined by Tobias Kremer, a German Social Democrat in the European Parliament,
11:17where he's a member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense,
11:20and the Delegations for Relations with the US and with NATO.
11:24Good morning and welcome to the set.
11:26Good morning. Thank you for having me.
11:28So, when you see and hear all these reports, what's your reaction?
11:33I mean, to me, that just shows the utter desperation of Putin, who has turned this already illegal and criminal
11:43campaign
11:43into just a campaign where he doesn't even focus his attacks on the battlefields, because he knows he can't progress
11:51on that.
11:51I think we've calculated his progress is slower than that of a snail, really.
11:56But he's now really focusing on attacking civilians, and he's not just attacking civilians in Ukraine who are suffering every
12:02day.
12:02But what we are seeing there is that he even goes so far of saying he knows that this grain
12:09export,
12:09he's hurting the Ukrainian economy, but he's also hurting people all over the world,
12:13especially in the Global South, who are so dependent on grain exports from Ukraine.
12:18And he knows that this will cause famine.
12:19He knows this will cause death in Africa, in other parts of the world.
12:22And Putin is so desperate that he just goes in there and tries to cause as much harm as possible.
12:27But that is just criminal, let's be honest.
12:28Having said that, where does the EU stand on Ukraine right now?
12:33Is it still as long as it takes when it comes to support?
12:37Or do we already see the limits of sustained help for Ukraine?
12:43I think what we need to understand is that this war that Putin conducts in Ukraine, against Ukraine, is not
12:50purely about Ukraine.
12:51And Putin has said that very, very clearly.
12:53For him, this is a war against the European order of peace.
12:58It's a war to undermine the unity of NATO, and it's a war to undermine the way we are living
13:03in our free democracies.
13:04And we see the hybrid attacks.
13:05It's not just Ukraine that's attacked.
13:07I'm from Germany.
13:08We had these attacks, and they're no longer hybrid.
13:10We had proper attacks in Leipzig, where you had drones that could have caused real damage and cost lives.
13:17And I think there is a growing understanding in Europe that we are defending here also our way of life,
13:23our liberty, and that supporting Ukraine is really necessary, not just for Ukraine, but also for our own security.
13:30And the cost of Ukraine failing would be so much higher for us than the cost of supporting Ukraine.
13:35So I think there is determination in Europe.
13:36We are the biggest supporters of Ukraine.
13:38But I also think we have to think very clearly, what levers do we have now, and to start thinking
13:43creatively.
13:43I still think we should use the frozen assets, for instance.
13:46That would have been my next question.
13:48I mean, the EU just extended sanctions on 3,000, give or take, individuals and entities after a long and
13:58arduous process, right?
14:01What should be the next step, the next action against Russia that the EU should take?
14:07I mean, I think we really should look at what hurts Putin and what does he care about.
14:12How can we use the levers we have into leverage for peace?
14:16And I think it would be poorly advised to just go into Putin's escalatory spiral where he might have an
14:23advantage.
14:24So it's not necessarily about like having hybrid attacks against Russia, but really looking where does it hurt Putin.
14:28And Putin, we see, unfortunately, he doesn't care about the life of his soldiers.
14:31He doesn't care about Russian lives.
14:33But what he does care about is his wallet.
14:35And we still have over 200 billion frozen assets in European bank accounts.
14:40And I think we really should be looking very closely of how we can turn that into a leverage for
14:45peace to show Putin,
14:47you are continuing this war, you are escalating this war, it's time you start paying for it and really using
14:53that.
14:54And I think it's especially important to do that now, because what we are seeing in the next few months,
14:57also with the G20 invitation of Putin into the United States, I think we as Europeans should go there with
15:04a plan, not just reacting,
15:05but actually saying here we have a peace plan.
15:07We worked it out with Ukraine and talked to Putin to nothing else, the G20, but Ukraine.
15:12All right, Tobias Kremer, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning.
15:16I should mention also that you will be a speaker at tomorrow's Euronews Defense Summit here in Brussels.
15:22Looking forward to that. Thank you.
15:24So for his last public appearance of his apostolic visit to France, Pope Leo chose the border city of Metz
15:32to speak on the future of Europe,
15:35giving a distinctly political dimension to a visit to France that has sparked scenes of spiritual jubilation
15:42and stressing the importance of unity on a continent where nationalist movements are gaining strength.
15:48And Russia's war against Ukraine now in its fifth year shows no sign of abating.
15:54To analyze the Pope's visit to France, I'm now joined by Austin Ivory, a fellow in contemporary church history at
16:00Oxford University
16:01and author of two biographies of Pope Francis.
16:05Good morning. Great to have you on the show.
16:08Good to be with you.
16:09So to you, what was the most surprising element about Leo's speech on Europe?
16:16Well, I wasn't wholly surprised by it in the sense that the content, I think, was typical of him, his
16:23commitment to peace, to multilateralism.
16:25What surprised me, I think, was the passion with which he is able to challenge Europe at the moment to
16:31say, you know,
16:32are you preparing for peace or are you preparing for war?
16:35In other words, are you constructing the institutions that will lay the basis for a new world order, which will
16:42contain and prevent war, make war unthinkable?
16:45Or are you simply increasing the budgets for your military spending, assuming that there will be more war?
16:50So I found that very, very challenging and very striking.
16:55Also, I think the return to the roots of Europe, it was a very challenging speech in terms of, you
17:00know, what are the true values that have made Europe?
17:02And he talked about the European history, but he also talked about the example of Robert Schumann.
17:07He was speaking in Metz, which was the place where Robert Schumann lived and had his work.
17:14And it's really Schumann as one of the great architects of the European Union.
17:19He focused on what made that possible after the war to build that new order.
17:24So Leo, you know, this is a great theme of his pontificate.
17:27He sees that the world order has crumbled, is crumbling, probably has crumbled.
17:32And now is the task to build that new world order.
17:35We've seen Pope Leo receive huge public enthusiasm.
17:39Does that give him greater political and moral influence?
17:43Or should we be careful not to confuse popularity with influence?
17:47Well, I'm struck.
17:49I was struck, of course, by the popularity of him at his visit, very similar, by the way, to his
17:54visit to Spain in June.
17:57From the sort of papal point of view, what this marks, I think, is the beginning of a new mission
18:02to Europe, if I can put it that way.
18:04Under Pope Francis, it was important to rebalance the church.
18:08The church is a global missionary body.
18:10Europe is no longer, if you like, the center of Catholicism.
18:14I think what Leo is doing is he's saying, actually, yes, he agrees with that.
18:18But he's also saying we need to build in Europe on what is happening, which is that young people are
18:25returning or coming to faith,
18:27not because they were brought up in any way religious, but because they are seeking and searching for meaning.
18:32And we've had a something like a 400 percent increase in new Catholics in France since Covid.
18:40And so a big part of his this trip, I think, just as it was in Spain, was to sort
18:45of take that desire for meaning, that search for for values and to just say, look, the church is here
18:53ready to receive you.
18:53And one of the things he did when he was addressing the French church was to say, look, the church
18:58itself has to change.
18:59You know, we have to be come a different kind of church if we are to walk with the seekers
19:04and the searchers among the young searches for meaning.
19:08But, yeah, his popularity was extraordinary just to see the streets full like that was remarkable.
19:12All right. Austin Ivory, an expert on the modern papacy at Oxford University.
19:16Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us. And that's it for today.
19:21For the rest of the news throughout the day, Euronews has you covered as usual.
19:25Thank you for watching. I'm Stefan Grobe and I see you tomorrow.
19:29I'll see you tomorrow.
19:30I'm ver. I'll see you tomorrow.