Despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from the kyiv region, the Ukrainian capital is again the target of bombardments.
Russia announced on Friday that it had destroyed an arms factory in the suburbs of the city located in the north of the country.
Moscow also assured that the strikes on the capital would be intensified in response to the attacks carried out in Russian territory of which it accuses Ukraine.
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These statements seem to herald a new change in approach by Russia which, after failing to defeat the defenders of kyiv, announced at the end of March that it would concentrate on eastern Ukraine and had withdrawn its forces leading the assault on the Ukrainian capital, as part of the war it has been waging since February 24.
A destroyed missile production workshop
“The number and scale of missile strikes on Kyiv sites will increase in response to all terrorist-type attacks and sabotage carried out on Russian territory by the nationalist regime in Kyiv,” the ministry spokesman said. Defense Russian, Igor Konashenkov.
He also said that Russia had destroyed a surface-to-air missile production workshop at the Vizar factory near kyiv using a Kalibr cruise missile.
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On Thursday, the governors of two Russian regions bordering Ukraine accused Ukrainian forces of bombing two villages in Russian territory, Klimovo and Spodariouchino, injuring seven.
In Klimovo, the attack was carried out by two Ukrainian helicopters, claimed the Russian authorities, accusations denied by kyiv and unverifiable independently.
These announcements come the day after the loss of the Russian flagship, the Moskva, engulfed in the waves of the Black Sea.
This 186-meter-long missile ship sank on Thursday after being hit by a Ukrainian missile according to kyiv, due to an accidental fire, retorts Moscow.
The loss of this ship is "a blow" to the Russian fleet in the region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday.
Towards a recourse to nuclear weapons?
Military setbacks in Ukraine could prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to resort to a tactical or low-power nuclear weapon in that country, William Burns, the head of the CIA, the main US intelligence agency, warned on Thursday.
But "we haven't really seen any concrete signs like military deployments or measures that could heighten our concerns," he insisted.
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Translating into words the level of extreme hostility reached in this conflict, as much as the gravity of the atrocities attributed to Russian forces, the Ukrainian Parliament voted on Thursday a resolution qualifying the Russian offensive as "genocide".