Russia strikes Kyiv for first time in almost a month

• Ukraine says counter-attack retakes half of Sievierodonetsk, the biggest battlefield in the east.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Lysychansk and Soledar on Sunday.
• Russia claims it destroyed tanks delivered to Ukraine by Eastern European countries.

Russia fired missiles at Kyiv for the first time in more than a month, and President Vladimir Putin threatened that if western nations supplied Ukraine with longer-range missiles, he would hit new targets in the country.

Ukraine authorities said a counter-attack has retaken half of Sievierodonetsk, the biggest battlefield in the east where Russia has recently concentrated its forces.

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“What you all deserve is victory – that is the most important thing.” But not at any cost, ” In a video published on Sunday night, Zelenskiy, dressed in his customary khaki T-shirt, told Ukrainian troops.

The Luhansk region includes Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk, while the Donetsk region includes Soledar. The Donbas, Ukraine’s industrial core, is made up of both regions, which Russia claims it is on a mission to “liberate.”

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Ukraine said the strike targeted a train car repair facility, while Russia claimed it destroyed tanks delivered to Ukraine by Eastern European countries.

The chief of the Ukrainian railway, Oleksandr Kamyshin, stated that four missiles had hit the Darnytsia train car maintenance plant in eastern Kyiv, but denied that military weaponry was present.

The strike served as a stark reminder of the conflict in Kyiv, where normalcy has mostly returned since Russian forces were pushed out of the city’s outskirts in March.

On Twitter, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak stated that the “missile assaults on Kyiv have only one purpose – to murder as many people as possible.”

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Ukraine said that Russia used long-range air-launched missiles fired from heavy bombers as far away as the Caspian Sea to carry out the Kyiv strike.

The Russian cruise missile flew “critically low” over Ukraine’s second largest nuclear power facility, as per the country’s nuclear power operator.

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