{"id":22267,"date":"2022-06-05T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/06\/05\/russia-hits-kyiv-with-missiles-putin-warns-west-on-supplies\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:54:29","slug":"russia-hits-kyiv-with-missiles-putin-warns-west-on-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/06\/05\/russia-hits-kyiv-with-missiles-putin-warns-west-on-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine with airstrikes in Kyiv on Sunday that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit \u201cobjects that we haven\u2019t yet struck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cryptic threat of a military escalation from the Russian leader didn\u2019t specify what the new targets might be, but it comes days after the United States announced plans to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/pentagon\/2022\/06\/01\/us-will-send-himars-precision-rockets-to-ukraine\/\">deliver $700 million of security assistance<\/a>&nbsp;for Ukraine that includes four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles, spare parts and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military analysts say Russia is hoping to overrun the embattled eastern Donbas region, where Russia-backed separatists have fought the Ukrainian government for years, before any weapons that might turn the tide arrive. The Pentagon said earlier this week it will take at least three weeks to get the precision U.S. weapons and trained troops onto the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2022\/06\/03\/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-sparks-renewed-interest-in-stryker-protection-system\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/StrykerIronCurtain.jpg_7f41f8.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Russian invasion of Ukraine sparks renewed interest in Stryker protection system<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Stryker Active Protection System capability could become a reality due to renewed interest in the European theater.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian forces pounded railway facilities and other infrastructure early Sunday in Kyiv, which had previously seen weeks of eerie calm. Ukraine\u2019s nuclear plant operator, Energoatom, said one cruise missile buzzed the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) to the south, on its way to the capital \u2014 citing the dangers of such a near miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine that the Russian airstrikes had destroyed tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv hadn\u2019t faced any such strikes since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-business-europe-bulgaria-nato-138362dbd31e65e7c06f91760bee75ce\">April 28 visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a>. The early morning attack triggered air raid alarms and showed that Russia still had the capability and willingness to hit at Ukraine\u2019s heart since abandoning its wider offensive across the country to instead focus its efforts in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a posting on the Telegram app, the Russian Defense Ministry said high-precision, long-range air-launched missiles were used. It said the strikes on the outskirts of Kyiv destroyed T-72 tanks supplied by Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles located in buildings of a car-repair business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"7054\" height=\"4703\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg 7054w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155564058020.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 7054px) 100vw, 7054px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A tank is towed near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (Bernat Armangue\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24<\/a>&nbsp;has led to untold tens of thousands of civilian and troop deaths, driven millions from their homes, sparked vast sanctions against Putin\u2019s government and allies, and strangled exports of critical wheat and other grains from Ukraine through Black Sea ports \u2014 limiting access to bread and other products in Africa, the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a television interview on Sunday, Putin lashed out at Western deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, saying they aim to prolong the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll this fuss around additional deliveries of weapons, in my opinion, has only one goal: To drag out the armed conflict as much as possible,\u201d Putin said, alluding to U.S. plans to supply multiple launch rocket systems to Kyiv. He insisted such supplies were unlikely to change much for the Ukrainian government, which he said was merely making up for losses of rockets of similar range that they already had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Kyiv gets longer-range rockets, he added, Moscow will \u201cdraw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have plenty of, in order to strike at those objects that we haven\u2019t yet struck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The missiles hit Kyiv\u2019s Darnytski and Dniprovski districts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, punctuating the Kremlin\u2019s recently reduced goal of seizing the entire Donbas. Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces for eight years in the Donbas and established self-proclaimed republics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent days, Russian forces have focused on capturing the city of Sievierodonetsk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A billowing pillar of smoke filled the air with an acrid odor in Kyiv\u2019s eastern Darnystki district, and the charred, blackened wreckage of a warehouse-type structure was smoldering. Police near the site told an Associated Press reporter that military authorities had banned the taking of images. Soldiers also blocked off a road in a nearby area leading toward a large railway yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sites struck included facilities for the state rail company, Ukrzaliznytsia, said Serhiy Leshchenko, an adviser in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s office, on Telegram. The cruise missiles appeared to have been launched from a Tu-95 bomber flying over the Caspian Sea, the Air Force Command said on Facebook. It said air defense units shot down one missile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Energoatom said one cruise missile came dangerously close to the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant. It said the missile \u201cflew critically low\u201d and that Russian forces \u201cstill do not understand that even the smallest fragment of a missile that can hit a working power unit can cause a nuclear catastrophe and radiation leak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, Russian forces continued their push to take ground in eastern Ukraine, with missile and airstrikes carried out on cities and villages of the Luhansk region, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">the war<\/a>&nbsp;now past the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-moscow-government-and-politics-7c1d0e4a3795919c56cabdb0dd51d61c\">100-day mark<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said on Telegram that \u201cairstrikes by Russian Ka-52 helicopters were carried out in the areas of Girske and Myrna Dolyna, by Su-25 aircraft &#8211; on Ustynivka,\u201d while Lysychansk was hit by a missile from the Tochka-U complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of 13 houses were damaged in Girske, and five in Lysychansk. Another airstrike was reported in the eastern city of Kramatorsk by its mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko. No one was killed in the attack, he said, but two of the city\u2019s enterprises sustained \u201csignificant damage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday morning, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff accused Russian forces of using phosphorus munitions in the village of Cherkaski Tyshky in the Kharkiv region. The claim couldn\u2019t be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update also confirmed strikes on Kyiv, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear from the statement which infrastructure facilities in Kyiv were hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The General Staff said Russian forces continue assault operations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/05\/24\/russian-troops-plunge-through-ukraine-lines-in-donbas-as-fighting-enters-decisive-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sievierodonetsk<\/a>, one of two key cities left to be captured in the Luhansk region of the Donbas. The Russians control the eastern part of the city, the update said, and are focusing on trying to encircle Ukrainian forces in the area and \u201cblocking off main logistical routes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.K. military said in its daily intelligence update that Ukrainian counterattacks in Sieverodonetsk were \u201clikely blunting the operational momentum Russian forces previously gained through concentrating combat units and firepower.\u201d Russian forces previously had been making a string of advances in the city, but Ukrainian fighters have pushed back in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement also said Russia\u2019s military was partly relying on reserve forces of the separatists in the Luhansk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese troops are poorly equipped and trained, and lack heavy equipment in comparison to regular Russian units,\u201d the intelligence update said, adding that \u201cthis approach likely indicates a desire to limit casualties suffered by regular Russian forces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far from the battlefield,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-soccer-sports-international-788fbdf56adc2b7f534fa5c81f1d9cc7\">Ukraine\u2019s national soccer players<\/a>&nbsp;are hoping to secure a World Cup spot when the team takes on Wales later Sunday in Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the diplomatic front, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was heading to Serbia for talks with President Aleksandar Vucic early this week, followed by a visit to Turkey on Tuesday, where the Russian envoy is expected to discuss Ukraine with his Turkish counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/2022\/06\/04\/major-baltic-sea-exercise-kicks-off-as-swedish-finnish-nato-bids-wait-on-turkey\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22155574464512.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Major Baltic Sea exercise kicks off as Swedish, Finnish NATO bids wait on Turkey<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The NATO exercise BALTOPS \u2013 to be held on the Baltic Sea next week \u2013 is the latest showing of unity and military strength as Sweden and Finland trade neutrality for NATO\u2019s embrace in the wake of Russia\u2019s three-month-old invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey has been trying to work with U.N. and the warring countries to help clear the way for Ukrainian grain to be exported to Turkish ports, though no deal on the issue appeared imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Ukrainian presidential adviser urged European nations to respond with \u201cmore sanctions, more weapons\u201d to Sunday\u2019s missile attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mykhailo Podolyak referenced remarks Friday by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said Putin had made a \u201chistoric error\u201d by invading Ukraine, but that world powers shouldn\u2019t \u201chumiliate Russia\u201d so that a diplomatic exit could be found when the fighting stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukrainian authorities said Ukraine and Russia had exchanged bodies of killed troops this week, in the first officially confirmed swap. Ukraine\u2019s Ministry for Reintegration of Occupied Territories said Saturday each side had exchanged 160 bodies Thursday on the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, parts of which are under Russian control. Russian officials haven\u2019t commented on the exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the Vatican, Pope Francis made one of his strongest appeals for a cease-fire and peace negotiations in Ukraine, urging leaders: \u201cDon\u2019t bring the world to ruins, please. 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