owing the latest attacks.

The Ukrainian leader late Friday said he spoke to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and discussed a meeting with President Donald Trump earlier this week in Washington, which Zelenskyy described as  positive and productive. 

 The Russian air strikes on our country continue and air defense, specifically interceptors for Patriot systems against ballistic missiles, remains a top priority,  Zelenskyy said Friday in a post on Telegram.

At a NATO summit in Ankara in July, Trump said the U.S. would give Ukraine a license to make Patriot systems, but he appeared to move away from that commitment Friday during a Cabinet meeting at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, saying he had not yet made a final decision on the matter.

From a basement shelter where she was taking cover as a second air alarm sounded for another wave, Liudmyla Nakonechna, 64, described how she was woken by loud explosions at 1:30 a.m.

 I ran into the corridor and was standing there when the bathroom door was blown off its hinges and struck me in the leg,  said Nakonechna, whose health is poor after undergoing cancer treatment.  I heard the sound of shattering glass. My balcony was covered in glass, and it was completely blown apart, while the windows in my bedroom were also blown out. 

Nakonechna had not taken cover in a shelter since Russia's full-scale invasion Feb. 24, 2022, but the stress became too much, she said.

 It's getting worse by the day,  Nakonechna said.  Whereas before there was an attack once every two weeks, or maybe once a week, now it happens practically every day. It is incredibly hard to bear this psychologically. 

Lithuania's foreign minister said the country's embassy in Kyiv was damaged when missiles struck nearby overnight.

Meanwhile, in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Moscow-appointed head of the city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said Saturday that a 60-year-old woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone attack on the city.