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Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) —
Russia took aim Sunday
at Western military sup-
plies for Ukraine, launch-
ing airstrikes on Kyiv that
it claimed destroyed tanks
donated from abroad, as
Vladimir Putin warned
that any Western deliver-
ies of longer-range rocket
systems would prompt
Moscow to hit “ob-
jects that we haven’t yet
struck.”

The Russian leader’s cryp-
tic threat of military escala-
tion did not specify what the
new targets might be. It came
days after the United States
announced plans to deliver
$700 million of security as-
sistance for Ukraine that in- from the Caspian Sea toward change the military situation capture Ukrainian territory day that Ukrainian forces had
cludes four precision-guided, Kyiv, and one was destroyed for Ukraine’s government, in the east. knocked out broadcast TV
medium-range rocket sys- by air defenses. Four other which he said was merely In recent days, Russian forc- service in Donetsk, where it
tems, as well as helicopters, missiles hit “infrastructure making up for losses of simi- es have focused on captur- said a broadcast tower had
Javelin anti-tank systems, facilities,” but Ukraine said lar rockets. ing Ukraine’s eastern cities toppled. Ukrainian authori-
radars, tactical vehicles and there were no casualties. If Kyiv gets longer-range of Sievierodonetsk and Ly- ties did not immediately con-
more. Nuclear plant operator Ener- rockets, he added, Moscow sychansk. On Sunday they firm the attack.
Military analysts say Russia goatom said one cruise mis- will “draw appropriate con- continued their push, with In the Azov Sea port of Mari-
hopes to overrun Ukraine’s sile buzzed close to the Piv- clusions and use our means missile and airstrikes on cities upol, which Russia claimed
embattled eastern industrial dennoukrainsk nuclear plant, of destruction, which we and villages in the Donbas. to have captured in May fol-
Donbas region, where Rus- 350 kilometers (220 miles) have plenty of, in order to In the cities of Sloviansk and lowing a brutal monthslong
sia-backed separatists have to the south, and warned of strike at those objects that we Bakhmut, cars and military siege, a mayoral aide said
fought the Ukrainian gov- the possibility of a nuclear ca- haven’t yet struck.” vehicles were seen speeding water supplies contaminated
ernment since 2014, before tastrophe if even one missile The U.S. has stopped short into town Sunday from the by decomposing corpses and
any U.S. weapons that might fragment hit the plant. of offering Ukraine longer- direction of the front line. garbage were causing dysen-
turn the tide arrive. The Pen- On the Telegram app, the range weapons that could fire Dozens of military doctors tery and posing a threat of
tagon said last week that it Russian Defense Ministry deep into Russia. But the four and paramedic ambulances cholera and other diseases.
will take at least three weeks said high-precision, long- medium-range High Mobil- worked to evacuate civilians In remarks carried by
to get the U.S. weapons onto range air-launched missiles ity Artillery Rocket Systems and Ukrainian servicemen, Ukraine’s Unian news agen-
the battlefield. were used on the outskirts of in the security package in- and a hospital was busy treat- cy, Petro Andriushchenko
Ukraine said the missiles Kyiv, destroying T-72 tanks clude launchers on wheels ing the injured, many hurt by said Russian authorities con-
aimed at the capital hit a train supplied by Eastern Euro- that allow troops to strike a artillery shelling. trolling the city have imposed
repair shop. Elsewhere, Rus- pean countries and other target and then quickly move The U.K. military said in its a quarantine. He did not de-
sian airstrikes in the eastern armored vehicles in a train away — which could be use- daily intelligence update that scribe what measures Rus-
city of Druzhkivka destroyed car repair shop.But the head ful against Russian artillery Ukrainian counterattacks in sian authorities had included,
buildings and left at least one of Ukraine’s railway system on the battlefield. Sieverodonetsk were “likely and his report could not be
person dead, a Ukrainian of- rejected the claim that tanks The Spanish daily El Pais blunting the operational mo- independently confirmed.
ficial said Sunday. Residents were inside. Oleksandr Ka- reported Sunday that Spain mentum Russian forces pre- World Health Organization
described waking to the myshin said four missiles planned to supply anti-air- viously gained through con- officials warned last month
sound of missile strikes, with hit the Darnytsia car repair craft missiles and up to 40 centrating combat units and about the threat of cholera
rubble and glass falling down plant, but no military equip- Leopard 2 A4 battle tanks to firepower.” Russian forces and other infectious diseases
around them. ment has been stored there. Ukraine. Spain’s Ministry of previously had been making a in Mariupol.
“It was like in a horror mov- He said the site was used to Defense did not comment on string of advances in the city, Also Sunday, Ukrainian Pres-
ie,” Svitlana Romashkina repair gondolas and carriers the report. but Ukrainian fighters have ident Volodymyr Zelenskyy
said. for exporting grain. In Kyiv’s eastern Darnystki pushed back in recent days. traveled to the Zaporizh-
Donetsk Gov. Pavlo “Russia has once again lied,” district, a pillar of smoke The statement also said Rus- zhia region in the southeast,
Kyrylenko urged city resi- he wrote on Telegram. “Their filled the air with an ac- sia’s military was partly rely- which is partly under Russian
dents to leave, saying on real goal is the economy and rid odor over the charred, ing on reserve forces of Lu- control. He received a battle
Facebook that ruined build- the civilian population. They blackened wreckage of a hansk separatists. report, thanked troops and
ings can be restored but “we want to block our ability to warehouse-type structure. “These troops are poorly met with refugees in what
won’t be able to bring back export Ukrainian products.” Soldiers blocked off a nearby equipped and trained, and was only his second public
the lives lost.” In a television interview that road leading toward a large lack heavy equipment in visit outside the Kyiv area
The Russian Defense Min- aired Sunday, Putin lashed railway yard. comparison to regular Rus- since the war began.
istry said air-launched pre- out at Western deliveries of Before Sunday’s early morn- sian units,” the intelligence Far from the battlefield,
cision missiles were used to weapons to Ukraine, saying ing attack, Kyiv had not faced update said, adding that the Ukraine’s national soccer
destroy workshops in the they aim to prolong the con- any such Russian airstrikes move “indicates a desire to players missed out on quali-
Donetsk region of eastern flict. since the April 28 visit of limit casualties suffered by fying for a World Cup spot,
Ukraine, including in Dru- “All this fuss around addi- U.N. Secretary-General An- regular Russian forces.” losing 1-0 to Wales in an
zhkivka, that were repairing tional deliveries of weapons, tónio Guterres. The attack Both sides in the conflict emotionally charged mission
damaged Ukrainian military in my opinion, has only one triggered air-raid alarms and have been waging an infor- in Cardiff. Back home, some
equipment. goal: to drag out the armed showed that Russia still had mation war, especially on Ukrainians gathered in bars
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Gen- conflict as much as possible,” the capability and willingness television, along with mili- to watch the game.q
eral Staff said Russian forces Putin said. He insisted such to hit at Ukraine’s heart, de- tary attacks. Russia’s Tass
fired five X-22 cruise missiles supplies were unlikely to spite refocusing its efforts to news agency reported Sun-