Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Moscow's pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.
Stung by the loss of its Black Sea flagship and indignant over alleged Ukrainian aggression on Russian territory, Russia's military command had warned of renewed missile strikes on Ukraine's capital. Officials in Moscow said they were targeting military sites, a claim repeated -- and refuted by witnesses -- throughout 52 days of war.
He said the plant was among multiple Ukrainian military sites hit with "air-launched high-precision long-range weapons." As the U.S. and Europe send new arms to Ukraine, the strategy could be aimed at hobbling Ukraine's defences ahead of what's expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east.
In apparent preparations for its assault on the east, the Russian military intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, in recent days. Friday's attack killed civilians and wounded more than 50 people, the Ukrainian president's office reported. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Vladimir Putin this past week in Moscow -- the first European leader to do so since the invasion began Feb. 24 -- said the Russian president is "in his own war logic" on Ukraine.
"The destruction of all our guys in Mariupol -- what they are doing now -- can put an end to any format of negotiations," he said. Zelenskyy estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war, and about 10,000 have been injured. The office of Ukraine's prosecutor general said Saturday that at least 200 children have been killed, and more than 360 wounded.
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