Drowned by the loss of its flagship in the Black Sea and outraged by the alleged Ukrainian aggression on Russian soil, the Russian military administration had warned of new rocket attacks on the Ukrainian capital. Officials in Moscow said they were targeting military bases, a claim that was repeated – and denied by witnesses – during the 52 days of the war.
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But the report goes much deeper. Every day brings new discoveries of civilians victims of an invasion that has shaken European security. As Russia prepared for the impending attack, a mother wept over the body of her 15-year-old son after rockets hit a residential area of Kharkiv, a city in the northeast. One baby and at least eight others were killed, officials said. The story goes on under the ad In the Kiev region, Ukrainian authorities said they had found the bodies of more than 900 civilians, most of them dead, since Russian troops withdrew two weeks ago. Smoke rose again from the capital in the early hours of Saturday, as Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported a strike that killed one person and injured several others. The mayor advised residents who left the city earlier in the war not to return. 2:16 Canada Deploys Troops in Poland to Assist Ukrainian Refugees Canada Deploys Troops in Poland to Assist Ukrainian Refugees “We do not rule out further strikes in the capital,” Klitschko said. “If you have the opportunity to stay a little longer in cities where it is safer, do it.” It was not immediately clear from the ground what hit the strike on Saturday in the Darnytskyi district of Kiev. The large district at the southeastern tip of the capital includes a mix of Soviet-style apartment buildings, newer shopping malls and large retail stores, industrial areas and railway facilities. The story goes on under the ad Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the target was an armored factory. He did not specify where the plant is located, but there is one in the Darnytskyi area. He said the plant was among several Ukrainian military sites hit by “high-precision long-range air weapons”. As the US and Europe send new weapons to Ukraine, the strategy could be aimed at thwarting Ukraine’s defense before what is expected to be a full-scale Russian offensive in the east.
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It was the second strike in the Kiev region since the Russian military promised this week to intensify rocket attacks on the capital. Another rocket attack on Friday as residents went for walks, foreign embassies planned to reopen and other signs of the city’s pre-war life began to reappear after Russian troops failed to occupy Kyiv and leave in the East. Kyiv was one of the many targets on Saturday. The office of the Ukrainian president reported rocket attacks and bombings in the last 24 hours in eight areas across the country. The governor of the Lviv region in western Ukraine – far from the unstable east and an area that has long been considered a safe zone – reported airstrikes in the area by Russian Su-35 aircraft taking off from neighboring Belarus. The story goes on under the ad In apparent preparations for an attack on the east, the Russian army has intensified its bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, in recent days. Along with the killing of civilians, Friday’s attack injured more than 50 people, the Ukrainian president’s office said. Trending Stories
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On Saturday, a bomb blast believed to have been triggered by rockets sent emergency workers to a nearby market in Kharkov, according to AP reporters at the scene. One person was killed and at least 18 were injured, according to rescue workers. “All the windows, all the furniture, all damaged. And the door, too “, said a surprised resident Valentina Ulianova. In southeastern Ukraine, the battered southern port city of Mariupol is enduring, but the situation is critical, the Ukrainian president’s office said. Russian forces have maintained a blockade there since the first days of the invasion and a small number of Ukrainian defenders are resisting the siege. The story goes on under the ad
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The capture of Mariupol will allow Russian forces in the south, which came through the annexed Crimean peninsula, to fully connect with troops in the Donbas region, the eastern industrial heart of Ukraine. The battle for control of Mariupol had costly consequences for trapped and hungry civilians. Locals said they saw Russian troops digging up corpses from residential yards and banning new burials. It was unclear why. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for more Western weapons and a global embargo on Russian oil, and blamed Russian troops occupying Ukrainian cities for civilian terrorism. “The occupiers believe that this will make it easier for them to control this area. But they are very wrong. “They are making fun of themselves,” Zelensky said in a video overnight. “Russia’s problem is that it is not accepted – and will never be accepted – by the entire Ukrainian people. “Russia has lost Ukraine forever.” 2:23 Ukraine claims rocket attack caused the sinking of Putin’s precious warship Ukraine claims that the missile attack caused the sinking of Putin’s precious warship He also warned in an interview with CNN that “all the countries of the world” should be prepared for the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons regularly, an underlying fear since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. The story goes on under the ad Zelensky estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war and that about 10,000 had been wounded. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced on Saturday that at least 200 children have been killed since the start of the war and more than 360 have been injured. The Russians have also captured about 700 Ukrainian soldiers and more than 1,000 civilians, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Saturday. Ukraine holds about the same number of Russian troops as prisoners and intends to arrange an exchange with Moscow, but demands the “unconditional” release of civilians, Verestsuk said. Russia’s warning of escalating attacks in Kyiv came after Russian authorities accused Ukraine on Thursday of injuring seven people and damaging about 100 homes in airstrikes in Bryansk, an area bordering Ukraine.
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Ukrainian officials have not confirmed targets in Russia. However, they claimed responsibility for destroying a key Russian warship with missiles earlier this week, in a major victory for Ukraine and a symbolic defeat for Russia. Moskva sank on Thursday after severe damage. Moscow did not recognize any attack, saying only that a fire had exploded on the ship. The sinking reduces Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea and seemed to symbolize Moscow’s fortunes in an eight-week invasion widely seen as a historic blunder following Russia’s withdrawal from the Kiev region and much of northern Ukraine. The story goes on under the ad 2:10 Azov Battalion: Who are the far-right militias fighting for Ukraine against Russia? Azov Battalion: Who are the far-right militias fighting for Ukraine against Russia? After the retreat, the corpses were abandoned on the streets of cities around Kyiv or temporarily buried. Andriy Nebytov, who heads the district police force, cited police figures showing that 95% had been killed by gunfire, saying they had “simply been executed in the streets”. More bodies are being found every day under rubble and in mass graves, he added, with the largest number in Buha, over 350. The diplomatic rift between Russia and the West deepened on Saturday as Moscow barred British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a dozen other senior British officials from entering the country in response to British sanctions. Chernov reported from Kharkov. Yesica Fisch in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Robert Burns in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this …
