Putin Warns US Against Sending Ukraine Longer-Range Missiles

Russian Cruise Missiles Hit Kyiv, First Attack In Weeks; Moscow Threatens To Hit Targets It Has So Far Avoided Reuters

Russia hit Kyiv with cruise missiles fired from the injuring at least one person, officials said, and striking a rail car repair facility in the Ukrainian capital, in the first such attack for weeks, Ukraine's army and the country's railway chief said. The airstrikes pierced through a sense of relative security that had settled over the city as the country's forces slow Russia's grinding onslaught in the east. While the fight has been centered in recent weeks in the east, following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kyiv region, the strike on the capital offered a sobering reminder that Moscow can still lash out virtually at will on most of Ukraine.

At least five missiles hit the capital, Kyiv, about 5 am near a railway station and other targets, the first shelling reported in the city in more than a month. The strikes, which Russia said had destroyed tanks and armoured vehicles supplied by Eastern European allies, came as President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow would hit targets it had so far avoided if Western nations began delivering longer-range missiles to Ukraine.