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WORLD NEWS Monday 6 June 2022
Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

By JOHN LEICESTER tors and paramedic ambu-
Associated Press lances worked to evacu-
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Rus- ate civilians and Ukrainian
sia took aim Sunday at servicemen, and a hospital
Western military supplies for was busy treating the in-
Ukraine, launching airstrikes jured, many hurt by artillery
on Kyiv that it claimed de- shelling.
stroyed tanks donated The U.K. military said in its
from abroad, as Vladimir daily intelligence update
Putin warned that any that Ukrainian counterat-
Western deliveries of lon- tacks in Sieverodonetsk
ger-range rocket systems were "likely blunting the
would prompt Moscow to operational momentum
hit "objects that we haven't Russian forces previously
yet struck." gained through concen-
The Russian leader's cryptic trating combat units and
threat of military escala- firepower." Russian forces
tion did not specify what previously had been mak-
the new targets might be. It ing a string of advances in
came days after the United the city, but Ukrainian fight-
States announced plans to ers have pushed back in re-
deliver $700 million of secu- cent days.
rity assistance for Ukraine The statement also said
that includes four precision- Wreckage lie along a street at a railway service facility hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Russia's military was partly
guided, medium-range Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Associated Press relying on reserve forces of
rocket systems, as well as Luhansk separatists.
helicopters, Javelin anti- kivka, that were repairing gram. "Their real goal is the The Spanish daily El Pais re- "These troops are poorly
tank systems, radars, tacti- damaged Ukrainian mili- economy and the civilian ported Sunday that Spain equipped and trained, and
cal vehicles and more. tary equipment. population. They want to planned to supply anti-air- lack heavy equipment in
Military analysts say Russia Meanwhile, Ukraine's Gen- block our ability to export craft missiles and up to 40 comparison to regular Rus-
hopes to overrun Ukraine's eral Staff said Russian Ukrainian products." Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks sian units," the intelligence
embattled eastern indus- forces fired five X-22 cruise In a television interview that to Ukraine. Spain's Ministry update said, adding that
trial Donbas region, where missiles from the Caspian aired Sunday, Putin lashed of Defense did not com- the move "indicates a de-
Russia-backed separatists Sea toward Kyiv, and one out at Western deliveries of ment on the report. sire to limit casualties suf-
have fought the Ukrainian was destroyed by air de- weapons to Ukraine, say- In Kyiv's eastern Darnystki fered by regular Russian
government since 2014, fenses. Four other missiles ing they aim to prolong the district, a pillar of smoke forces."
before any U.S. weapons hit "infrastructure facili- conflict. filled the air with an ac- Both sides in the conflict
that might turn the tide ties," but Ukraine said there "All this fuss around addi- rid odor over the charred, have been waging an in-
arrive. The Pentagon said were no casualties.Nuclear tional deliveries of weap- blackened wreckage of a formation war, especially
last week that it will take plant operator Energoat- ons, in my opinion, has only warehouse-type structure. on television, along with
at least three weeks to get om said one cruise missile one goal: to drag out the Soldiers blocked off a near- military attacks. Russia's
the U.S. weapons onto the buzzed close to the Pivden- armed conflict as much by road leading toward a Tass news agency report-
battlefield. noukrainsk nuclear plant, as possible," Putin said. He large railway yard. ed Sunday that Ukrainian
Ukraine said the missiles 350 kilometers (220 miles) insisted such supplies were Before Sunday's early forces had knocked out
aimed at the capital hit to the south, and warned unlikely to change the mili- morning attack, Kyiv had broadcast TV service in
a train repair shop. Else- of the possibility of a nu- tary situation for Ukraine's not faced any such Russian Donetsk, where it said a
where, Russian airstrikes clear catastrophe if even government, which he said airstrikes since the April 28 broadcast tower had top-
in the eastern city of Dru- one missile fragment hit the was merely making up for visit of U.N. Secretary-Gen- pled. Ukrainian authorities
zhkivka destroyed build- plant. losses of similar rockets. eral António Guterres. The did not immediately con-
ings and left at least one On the Telegram app, the If Kyiv gets longer-range attack triggered air-raid firm the attack. In the Azov
person dead, a Ukrainian Russian Defense Ministry rockets, he added, Mos- alarms and showed that Sea port of Mariupol, which
official said Sunday. Resi- said high-precision, long- cow will "draw appropri- Russia still had the capabil- Russia claimed to have
dents described waking to range air-launched missiles ate conclusions and use ity and willingness to hit at captured in May following
the sound of missile strikes, were used on the outskirts our means of destruction, Ukraine's heart, despite re- a brutal monthslong siege,
with rubble and glass falling of Kyiv, destroying T-72 which we have plenty of, focusing its efforts to cap- a mayoral aide said wa-
down around them. tanks supplied by Eastern in order to strike at those ture Ukrainian territory in ter supplies contaminated
"It was like in a horror mov- European countries and objects that we haven't yet the east. by decomposing corpses
ie," Svitlana Romashkina other armored vehicles in struck." In recent days, Russian forc- and garbage were caus-
said. a train car repair shop.But The U.S. has stopped short es have focused on cap- ing dysentery and posing a
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo the head of Ukraine's rail- of offering Ukraine longer- turing Ukraine's eastern cit- threat of cholera and other
Kyrylenko urged city resi- way system rejected the range weapons that could ies of Sievierodonetsk and diseases.
dents to leave, saying claim that tanks were in- fire deep into Russia. But Lysychansk. On Sunday In remarks carried by
on Facebook that ruined side. Oleksandr Kamyshin the four medium-range they continued their push, Ukraine's Unian news agen-
buildings can be restored said four missiles hit the Dar- High Mobility Artillery Rock- with missile and airstrikes cy, Petro Andriushchenko
but "we won't be able to nytsia car repair plant, but et Systems in the security on cities and villages in the said Russian authorities
bring back the lives lost." no military equipment has package include launch- Donbas. controlling the city have
The Russian Defense Minis- been stored there. He said ers on wheels that allow In the cities of Sloviansk and imposed a quarantine.
try said air-launched preci- the site was used to repair troops to strike a target and Bakhmut, cars and military He did not describe what
sion missiles were used to gondolas and carriers for then quickly move away vehicles were seen speed- measures Russian authori-
destroy workshops in the exporting grain. — which could be useful ing into town Sunday from ties had included, and his
Donetsk region of eastern "Russia has once again against Russian artillery on the direction of the front report could not be inde-
Ukraine, including in Druzh- lied," he wrote on Tele- the battlefield. line. Dozens of military doc- pendently confirmed.q