The missiles were the first to hit the capital since late April, when a Radio Liberty producer was killed in a Russian missile attack that struck her building.
“According to preliminary data, the [Russians] Launched missiles from Tu-95 aircraft from the Caspian Sea, “the Ukrainian air force said in a statement.
In a televised interview on Sunday, Putin criticized Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, saying they intend to prolong the conflict.
“All this fuss over additional arms deliveries, in my view, has only one goal: to prolong the armed conflict as much as possible,” Putin said.
He insisted that such supplies were unlikely to change the military situation of the Ukrainian government, which said it would only compensate for similar rocket losses.
If Kyiv achieves more powerful rockets, he added, Moscow “will draw the right conclusions and use our means of destruction, many of which we have, to hit those objects that we have not yet hit.”
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The US has stopped before offering Ukraine long-range weapons that could shoot deep into Russia.
But the security package’s four medium-range high-mobility artillery rocket systems include rocket launchers that allow troops to hit a target and then move away quickly, which could be useful against Russian artillery. on the battlefield.
Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called on the West to impose more sanctions on Russia to punish it for Sunday’s strikes and to supply more weapons to Ukraine.
“The Kremlin is resorting to new insidious attacks. Today’s missile attacks in Kyiv have only one goal: to kill as many as possible,” he wrote in a tweet.
The mayor of the historic city of Brovary, about 20 kilometers from the center of Kyiv, urged people to stay inside their homes, as it had been reported a strange smell coming from the smoke.
Despite ongoing Russian offensives in Ukraine and widespread destruction, life in Kyiv has been relatively free of attacks recently after Moscow turned its attention east and south.
The sirens of the airstrikes regularly disrupt life in Kyiv, but in several weeks there have been no major strikes in the city.
The Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River stretches from the banks of Kyiv to the river bank, while the Dniprovskyi area north of the city lies along the river.
Oleksandr Honcharenko, mayor of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region, also reported new strikes in the city, which caused widespread but no casualties.
On Saturday, Ukrainian officials said the country’s troops had recaptured part of the city of Sievierodonetsk in a counteroffensive.
Reuters, AP
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