Russia struck Kyiv with missiles for the first time in more than a month, and President Vladimir...
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Russia struck Kyiv with missiles for the first time in more than a month, and President Vladimir Putin said he would strike new targets in Ukraine if Western nations supplied the country with longer-range missiles.
FIGHTING
Ukraine said the Kyiv strike on Sunday hit a rail car repair works, while Moscow said it had destroyed tanks sent by Eastern European countries to Ukraine. One person was hospitalised though there were no immediate reports of deaths.
In Sievierodonetsk, the main battlefield where Russia has concentrated its forces recently, Ukraine officials said a counter-attack had retaken half of the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday he had travelled to Lysychansk and Soledar, two cities very close to some of the most intense fighting.
A Russian state media journalist on Sunday said Russian Major General Roman Kutuzov had been killed in eastern Ukraine, adding to a string of high-ranking military casualties sustained by Moscow.
Ukraine's state-run nuclear power operator Energoatom said a Russian cruise missile flew "critically low" on Sunday morning over a major nuclear power plant.
Reuters could not independently verify battlefield reports.
WEAPONS AND DIPLOMACY
Putin in an interview said Russia would strike new targets if the West supplied longer-range missiles to Ukraine.
Britain said it would supply Ukraine with multiple-launch rocket systems that can strike targets up to 80 km (50 miles) away.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia has been cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to his aircraft, a senior foreign ministry source told the Interfax news agency on Sunday.
ECONOMY
Russian aluminium producer Rusal has filed a lawsuit against global miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO), seeking to win back access to its 20% share of alumina produced at a jointly owned refiner in Queensland.
Russia's sanctions against Gazprom (MCX: GAZP) Germania and its subsidiaries could cost German taxpayers and gas users an extra 5 billion euros ($5.36 billion) a year to pay for replacement gas, the Welt am Sonntag weekly reported, citing industry representatives.
Lavrov said on Saturday that Western sanctions would have no effect on the country's oil exports, predicting a big jump in profit from energy shipments this year.
QUOTE
The terrible consequences of this war can be stopped at any moment ... if one person in Moscow simply gives the order," Zelensky said, an apparent reference to Putin.
