Russia Ukraine War Live Updates: Russian minry website hacked, pro-Ukraine message posted; Zelenskyy visits embattled eastern regions
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a meeting with internally displaced people from Mariupol, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Zaporizhzhia region. (Reuters)
Russia struck Kyiv with missiles for the first time in more than a month, while President Vladimir Putin warned he would strike new targets in the country if western nations supplied Ukraine with longer-range missiles. In Sievierodonetsk, the main battlefield in the east where Russia has concentrated its forces recently, Ukraine officials said a counter-attack had retaken half of the city.
In the Kyiv attack, one person was hospitalised though there were no immediate reports of deaths. Dark smoke could be seen from many miles away after Russia’s attack on two outlying dricts on Sunday. Ukraine said the strike hit a rail car repair works, while Moscow said it had destroyed tanks sent Eastern European countries to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian lawmaker, Yevhen Yakovenko, was detained at the Moldovan border at the request of the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, Moldova’s border police. Yakovenko was placed in a pretrial detention centre, a press service representative of the border police said. Viorel Tentiu, the head of Interpol in Moldova, said in a statement that Yakovenko was put on the l following accusations from Belarus of bribery and corruption.
