Ukraine president tells citizens they should be proud of having survived 50 days under Russian attack when the invaders ‘gave us a maximum of five’
A man stands in a building at the Vizar company military-industrial complex, after the site was hit by Russian strikes, in the town of Vyshneve near Kyiv, on Friday. Pic/AFP
Russia’s defence ministry said on Friday it had struck a military target on the edge of Kyiv overnight with cruise missiles and promised more strikes against the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian targets.
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The ministry said its forces had also taken full control of the Ilyich Steel Plant in the besieged port city of Mariupol, which has been encircled by Russian troops for weeks. Powerful explosions were heard in Kyiv on Friday which appeared to be among the most significant there since Russian troops pulled back from the area earlier this month in preparation for battles in the south and east. The explosions were reported to have been heard after the Russian defence ministry announced that the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, had sunk while being towed after being badly damaged. Ukraine claimed the Moskva’s damage was the result of one of its missile strikes. Russia’s defence ministry spoke only of a fire breaking out and of
exploding ammunition.
The defence ministry said in its statement that its overnight missile strikes on Kyiv had struck the ‘Vizar’ factory on the edge of the Ukrainian capital which it said made and repaired missiles, including anti-ship missiles. It pledged more strikes on Kyiv. “The number and scale of missile strikes on targets in Kyiv will increase in response to any terrorist attacks or acts of sabotage on Russian territory committed by the Kyiv nationalist regime,” the ministry said in
a statement.
It said its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter which it said had attacked the village of Klimovo in Bryansk region on April 14 and had also shot down a Ukrainian Sukhoi-27 jet. A group of up to 30 Polish mercenaries had also been destroyed, it said.
In Ukraine, in his nightly address Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians they should be proud of having survived 50 days under Russian attack when the invaders “gave us a maximum of five.” Zelensky gave an extensive and almost poetic listing of the many ways in which Ukrainians have helped to fend off the Russian troops, including “those who showed that Russian warships can sail away, even if it’s to the bottom” of the sea. It was his only reference to the Russian missile cruiser Moskva.
Russia claims Ukrainian shelling
More than 20 buildings and a school were damaged as the result of Ukrainian shelling of a Russian village in the Belgorod region on Thursday, TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing regional authorities.
Stop arming Ukraine, Russia tells the US
Russia has warned the Unites States that there will be “unpredictable consequences” if Washington keeps arming Ukraine, The Washington Post reported on Friday. “We call on the United States and its allies to stop the irresponsible militarisation of Ukraine, which implies unpredictable consequences for regional and international security,” the Post quoted Russia in a diplomatic note to the United States.More than 20 buildings and a school were damaged as the result of Ukrainian shelling of a Russian village in the Belgorod region on Thursday, TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing regional authorities.
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