In Athens, Marco Rubio, the former U.S. senator and State Secretary under Donald Trump, delivered a speech urging Europe to move beyond "its torpor" and revive the spirit of ancient Greek civilization. Rubio, who is visiting Greece as part of a European tour, argued that Western civilization is "at a turning point" and facing a critical choice between "national power" and decline. He emphasized that the United States has continued to pursue "national power" through measures such as controlling strategic supply chains, reindustrialization, defense, and the competition to dominate emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russian forces carried out "massive strikes" during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, using missiles and drones to target several cities. The attacks resulted in the deaths of 28 people, with 20 fatalities, including five children, reported in the northern city of Prylouky after a missile struck a building. Eight others were killed in strikes in the capital, Kiev, as well as in the cities of Krementchouk and Oleksandria. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, condemned the attacks, stating that Russia was deliberately targeting "ordinary cities, ordinary life" and described the use of missiles as an "absolutely deliberate choice of terror." In Spain, Maricarmen Abascal, an 80-year-old woman from Madrid who had become a symbol in the fight against evictions, has died. Abascal was evicted from her apartment on a stretcher after the real estate company that owned her home significantly increased her rent. She was hospitalized in a state of exhaustion following the eviction. An agreement had been reached to allow her to return home, but she passed away on Wednesday. Demonstrators gathered near the Spanish Parliament in Madrid in the evening, chanting "Maricarmen lives on, the struggle continues" and "We will not tolerate another eviction!" to honor her memory and reaffirm their opposition to forced evictions.