Russian missile attack kills 5 in northern Ukrainian city as Zelenskyy visits NATO candidate Sweden

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Sweden on Saturday, his first visit to the country since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, while at home a missile strike in the center of a northern city killed five p

The Swedish government said Zelenskyy will meet officials in Harpsund, about 120 kilometers west of Stockholm. He will also meet Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia at a palace in the area.

In Russia, President Vladimir Putin visited top military officials in the city of Rostov-on-Don near the Ukrainian border. Putin’s visit was the first since the Wagner mercenary group ’s attempted mutiny in June, which saw the group’s fighters briefly take control of Rostov-on-Don. Ukraine this week has claimed counteroffensive gains on the southeastern front, regaining control of the village of Urozhaine in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Wednesday.

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