Russians Renew Missile Attacks on Kyiv, Reportedly From 1,000 Miles Away
Russian forces on Sunday fired missiles at Kyiv for the first time since late April.
President Vladimir Putin said that if the West delivers long-range missiles to Ukraine, Russia would retaliate by striking facilities that it has refraining from attacking up to now.
In an interview on state television, Putin shrugged off the recent U.S. decision to provide the Ukrainians with advanced multiple launch rocket systems, along with limited-range projectiles, to help them defend their territory from the invading Russian forces.
Those same systems are also capable of firing long-range missiles, however, and Putin said that if the West decides to supply Kyiv with such missiles, “we will draw conclusions from that and employ our weapons that we have in sufficient quantities to strike those facilities that we are not attacking so far.”
The Biden administration says Ukraine has committed not to use the rocket launch systems to fire across the border into Russian territory.
Meanwhile the Russians, while fighting on the ground in the eastern Donbass region – where Kremlin-backed separatists have fought the central government since 2014 – are also using long-range weapons to attack Ukraine, sometimes from many hundreds of miles away.
Early on Sunday morning, Ukraine’s defense ministry said five X-22 cruise missiles had targeted the capital early on Sunday morning. One was destroyed by a missile defense system and others hit “infrastructure facilities.” Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said one injured person was hospitalized....................
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