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Russia launched airstrikes against kyiv after almost a month of calm in the city

2022-06-06T00:52:00.718Z


Moscow fired several missiles hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that if allied countries send long-range rocket systems to Ukraine, his military would attack "targets we haven't hit yet."


This Sunday, Russia launched air strikes on kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and claimed to have destroyed tanks and military equipment donated by allied countries, according to the AP news agency.

The attack came hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that if Ukraine's supportive nations continued to send it long-range rocket systems, its military would attack "targets we haven't hit yet."

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At least five missiles fell on the capital, around 5 in the morning, near a railway station, The New York Times reported.

Russian airstrikes were also reported in the city of Druzhkivka in the eastern Donetsk region, destroying buildings and leaving at least one person dead, a Ukrainian official said, according to AP.

Ukraine's military reported that Russian forces fired five X-22 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea toward kyiv, and one was destroyed by air defenses.

Another four hit "infrastructure facilities," but Ukraine said there were no casualties, according to the agency's report.

Elena Holovko appears sitting outside her damaged house, amid the rubble left by a Russian missile in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, this Sunday, June 5. Bernat Armangue / AP

The attacks this Sunday break almost a month of calm in the Ukrainian capital.

Earlier on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state-run Rossiya television that Moscow would attack hitherto untouched targets if allies supply it with long-range weapons.

The threat appears to follow the US announcement that it would supply the Ukrainian military with a rocket system that can hit targets some 50 miles away.

“We will provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket and ammunition systems that will enable them to more accurately strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine,” President Joe Biden wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times on March 31. May.

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A day later, Moscow responded: "We believe that the United States is deliberately and diligently 'adding fuel to the fire,'" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a news conference.

Putin also downplayed the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine by the allies, saying they are actually looking to replace equipment that the Ukrainian military has run out of, according to the newspaper's report.

"All this fuss around additional arms deliveries, in my opinion, has only one goal: to prolong the armed conflict as long as possible," Putin said.

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Putin did not detail what kind of Ukrainian targets he would attack.

However, the operator of the Energoatom nuclear plant told the AP that one of Sunday's missiles passed near the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant and warned that if a missile fragment hit the facility, a nuclear catastrophe would occur.

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According to AP reports, the Russian Defense Ministry assured that its missiles destroyed T-72 tanks, delivered to Ukraine by European countries, as well as other military vehicles.

However, the Ukrainian railway authority took reporters to a train repair plant where the missiles allegedly landed, and said there was no military equipment at the affected facility.

AP reporters saw no tanks or destroyed military equipment in the buildings they visited.

On Saturday, Ukrainian officials claimed that Russia was launching "all its reserves" in Severodonetsk to destroy bridges and in an attempt to isolate this key city in the eastern Donbas region of the country, according to NBC News.

Source: telemundo

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