KyivRussia hit the Northern Bridge soon after Merz arrived.
Moscow warned foreigners to leave Kyiv on Saturday, and the German chancellor came by train anyway.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the strike damaged the road surface of one of several Dnipro crossings hit in recent days.
“If Russia is not stopped, its war machine will sooner or later turn against us,” Merz said.
Germany is expected to agree more than $1 billion in military aid, German government sources said.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 200+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story very differently.
- Mirror leans critical
- highlights Russia's breach of informal protocol against striking during Western leader visits, frames strike as defiant message
- Bloomberg Business leans favorable
- South China Morning Post
- foregrounds planned German military aid (US$1 billion+) and Kyiv's shift to wartime posture amid round-the-clock attacks
- TRT World
Sources: Mirror, Bloomberg Business, South China Morning Post, TRT World