The Russian Armed Forces launched five X-22 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea in the direction of kyiv, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.
One of the missiles, launched from Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers, was intercepted over the Obukhov district of the region. The rest impacted infrastructure in the north of the capital, according to the General Staff.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have destroyed T-72 tanks and other armored vehicles supplied by Eastern European countries to Ukraine that were at a railway car repair plant outside kyiv.
kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were explosions in the Darnitsia and Dnipro districts. One person was hospitalized. In addition, Russian forces fired missiles at the town of Brovary in the kyiv region.
The attack coincided with Putin’s warning to kyiv and the West in a previously recorded interview on Russian public television.
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The Kremlin chief stated that the Russian Armed Forces will hit hitherto spared targets if the West supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles.
“If they do supply them, we will draw the appropriate conclusions and use our weapons, which we do not lack, to attack those targets that we have not hit so far,” he said.
Putin made the remarks after the White House announced a new $700 million military aid package to Ukraine, which includes multiple HIMARS missile launchers with a range of up to 70 kilometers.
The United States made this decision after Zelensky promised not to use them against Russian territory.
Putin assured that the US decision will not fundamentally change the balance of power on the ground, since the weapons of the United States and other countries are intended to replenish the war material lost by Ukraine during the hostilities.
“There is nothing new here. First of all, these multiple-launch missile systems are already in the hands of the Ukrainian Army: they have similar Russian-made Soviet Grad, Smerch, Uragan”, capable of reaching between 45 and 70 kilometers, he stated.
The Russian president considered that, in general, “all this fuss about the supply of additional weapons (to Ukraine) pursues a single objective: to prolong the armed conflict as much as possible.”