Russia hits Kyiv missile factory after moskva sunk
An AFP journalist noticed that the Vizar plant near the capital’s international airport was severely damaged in the overnight attack.
Russia shut down a Ukrainian rocket factory after losing an iconic warship in the Black Sea, as the Pentagon backed Kyiv’s claim on Friday that it sank Moscow with cruise missiles.
An AFP journalist noticed that the Vizar plant near the capital’s international airport was severely damaged in the overnight attack.
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Russia said it had used sea-based long-range missiles to hit the factory, which Ukraine’s state weapons maker says produced the Neptune cruise missiles.
“There were five hits. My employee was in the office and his legs fell from the explosion,” Andrei Sizov, 47, the owner of a nearby woodworking workshop, told AFP.
“They are paying us to destroy Moscow,” he said. It was the first major Russian attack around the Ukrainian capital in two weeks.
An official Pentagon briefing told reporters that Ukraine had struck Moscow with two Neptunes – contrary to Russia’s claim that the ship had lost balance in rough seas as it was towed to port after an ammunition detonation. .
Moscow was leading Russia’s naval efforts in the seven-week conflict, and the fate of its crew of more than 500 was uncertain.
A Pentagon official said the survivors were recovered by other Russian ships, but Ukrainian officials said bad weather made rescue operations impossible.
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Russian fleets in the Black Sea are blocking the besieged port city of Mariupol, where Russian officials say they are in full control, although Ukrainian fighters are still hiding in the city’s fortress-like steelworks.
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In the capital, Kyiv regional governor Oleksandr Pavliuk said at least two other Russian attacks hit the city on Friday, adding that civilians should “wait for a time of calm.”
Russian forces began withdrawing from around Kyiv last month as they were redeployed to focus on the east of the country, but the city remains vulnerable to missile attacks.
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“In response to any terrorist attacks or sabotage carried out by the Kyiv nationalist regime in Russian territory, there will be an increase in the number and scale of missile strikes against targets in Kiev,” Russia’s defense ministry said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Friday that Russia may also use nuclear weapons in desperation as its offensive falters, echoing recent comments by CIA director William Burns.
“They could do it, I mean they can,” Zelensky told CNN. “To them, people’s lives are nothing.”
Burns said Russia’s failures on the battlefield raised the risk that President Vladimir Putin could deploy a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon to try to regain the initiative.
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In its latest move, Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of preparing a missile strike to kill its own refugees at a railway station in the city of Lozova in Kharkiv’s eastern region.
The allegations echoed Russia’s widely dismissed claim that Kyiv was responsible for an April 18 missile attack that killed another railway station.
In Kharkiv, Russian attacks killed at least seven people, including a child, the region’s governor said on Friday, as Moscow’s military intensified attacks in the region.
Outside the city, the village of Borova fell under the control of Russian troops and the local administration had to flee, the village’s mayor Alexander Tertychny said on Facebook.
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Ukrainian officials are urging people in the Donbass region in the south and east to move quickly west before a massive Russian offensive.
Capturing the Donbass region, where Russian-backed separatists control the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, would allow Moscow to create a southern corridor to the occupied Crimean peninsula.
As the war intensifies, the United Nations World Food Program appeals for access to desperate Ukrainians stranded in war zones, including Mariupol.
“It is one thing when people are suffering from the devastation of war. It is another when they are being starved,” WFP director David Beasley said in a statement.
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Moscow, which invaded Ukraine partly because of deepening ties between Kyiv and NATO, on Friday warned Finland and Sweden of the consequences of joining a US-led defense alliance.
Both countries are considering joining NATO after a disastrous move in Russia’s neighbor Ukraine.
“They will find themselves on the front lines of NATO,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
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Soon after, Finland’s European Affairs Minister Titti Tuppurainen said it was “highly likely” that his country would apply for NATO membership.
“The people of Finland, it seems they have already made up their mind and have a huge majority for NATO membership,” she told Britain’s Sky News.
Russia hits Kyiv missile factory after moskva sunk
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