Russia bombs Kyiv in what its mayor says was 'symbolic attack' before NATO summit | CBC News

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Before the early morning attack, Kyiv had not faced any such Russian airstrikes since June 5. More:

The Associated PressRescuers and firefighters work in a residential building hit by Russian missiles in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, on Sunday.Associated Press journalists in Kyiv saw rescue services battling flames and rescuing civilians. The strikes also damaged a nearby kindergarten, where a crater pocked the courtyard.

The early morning Russian airstrikes were the first to successfully target the capital since June 5. Two more explosions were later heard in Kyiv, but their cause was not immediately clear.A member of the Ukrainian parliament, Oleksiy Goncharenko, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that preliminary information indicated that Russia launched 14 missiles toward the capital region and Kyiv itself, suggesting that some were intercepted.

A former commander of U.S. forces in Europe said the strikes on Kyiv were intended to humiliate Western leaders as they gathered for the G7 and NATO summits."Russia is saying, `We can do this all day long. You guys are powerless to stop us,"' retired Lt.-Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of U.S. army forces in Europe, said. "The Russians are humiliating the leaders of the West.

Haidai confirmed Saturday that Severodonetsk, including a chemical plant where hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians were holed up, had fallen to Russian and separatist fighters.

 

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crime of the century

Get used to it and Russia is coming for you they have more money and more arms ukraines finished surrender

If Ukraine thought Kyiv would be left alone it would be even more stupid than I thought. It will also be levelled. Get used to it

But Ukraine had to promise not to use the long range middle systems not to launch stokes into Russia because tgecUS fears it might escalate the situation. Idiots! Guess what? It’s been escalated for the past 4 months!

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