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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A day after Moscow suffered a stinging symbolic defeat with the loss of the flagship<\/a> of its Black Sea fleet, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry promised Friday to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine\u2019s alleged military \u201cdiversions on the Russian territory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The threat of intensified attacks on Kyiv came after Russian authorities accused Ukraine of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes on Bryansk, a region that borders Ukraine. Authorities in another border region of Russia also reported Ukrainian shelling Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyiv has gradually displayed some signs of pre-war life after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to focus on a concentrated assault<\/a> in eastern Ukraine, leaving evidence of possible war crimes<\/a> in their wake. A renewed bombardment could return the capital\u2019s residents to sheltering in subway stations and the steady wail of air raid sirens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian officials have not confirmed striking targets in Russia, and the reports by Russian authorities could not be independently verified. However, Ukrainian officials claimed their forces struck a key Russian warship with missiles on Thursday. If true, the claim would represent an important victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – A Russian sailor salutes on the bow of Missile Cruiser Moskva, left, as crew of Russian patrol ship Pitliviy, right, prepare to moor the vessel, in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 30, 2014. The Moskva was built in Ukraine during the Soviet era and now is the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in its war with Ukraine. (AP Photo\/Pavel Golovkin, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The guided-missile cruiser Moskva, named for the Russian capital, sank while being towed to port Thursday after suffering heavy damage under circumstances that remained in dispute. Moscow acknowledged a fire on board but not any attack. U.S. and other Western officials could not confirm what caused the blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moskva had the capacity to carry 16 long-range cruise missiles, and its removal reduces Russia\u2019s firepower in the Black Sea. If Ukrainian forces took out the vessel, the Moskva likely represents the largest warship to be sunk in combat since the Falklands War. A British submarine torpedoed an Argentine navy cruiser called the ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 conflict, killing over 300 sailors on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian warship\u2019s loss in an invasion already widely seen as a historic blunder<\/a> also was a symbolic defeat for Moscow as its troops regroup for an offensive in eastern Ukraine after retreating from the Kyiv region and much of the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his nightly address Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the people of his country should be proud of having survived 50 days under attack when the Russian invaders \u201cgave us a maximum of five.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyy did not mention the Moskva by name, but while listing the ways Ukraine has defended against the onslaught, mentioned \u201cthose who showed that Russian warships can sail away, even if it\u2019s to the bottom\u201d of the sea. It was his only reference to the Moskva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News about the flagship overshadowed Russian claims of advances in the southern port city of Mariupol, where Moscow\u2019s forces have been battling the Ukrainians since the early days of the invasion in some of the heaviest fighting of the war \u2014 at a horrific cost to civilians<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cemetery worker takes a rest from working on the graves of civilians killed in Bucha during the war with Russia, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday April 14, 2022. (AP Photo\/Rodrigo Abd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dwindling numbers of Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol are holding out against a siege that has trapped well over 100,000 civilians in desperate need of food, water and heating. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told The Associated Press in an interview<\/a> Thursday that people were being \u201cstarved to death\u201d in the besieged city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariupol\u2019s mayor said this week that more than 10,000 civilians had died and the death toll could surpass 20,000. Other Ukrainian officials have said they expect to find evidence of atrocities committed against civilians like the ones discovered in Bucha and other towns outside Kyiv once the Russians withdrew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mariupol City Council said Friday that locals reported seeing Russian troops digging up bodies that were buried in residential courtyards and not allowing any new burials \u201cof people killed by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy the exhumation is being carried out and where the bodies will be taken is unknown,\u201d the council said in a statement posted on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariupol\u2019s capture is critical for Russia because it would allow its forces in the south, which came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the Donbas region, Ukraine\u2019s eastern industrial heartland and the target of the looming offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow-backed separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in the Donbas since 2014, the same year Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine. Russia has recognized the independence<\/a> of two rebel-held areas of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it\u2019s not certain when Russia will launch the full-scale campaign, a regional Ukrainian official said Friday that seven people died and 27 were injured after Russian forces opened fire on buses carrying civilians in the village of Borovaya, near the northeastern city of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are working to establish the circumstances of the attack, Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor\u2019s office, told Ukraine\u2019s Suspilne news website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chubenko said that Ukrainian authorities had opened criminal proceedings in connection with a suspected \u201cviolation of the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder.\u201d The claims of an attack on civilian buses could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that Russian strikes in the Kharkiv region \u201cliquidated a squad of mercenaries from a Polish private military company\u201d of up to 30 people and \u201cliberated\u201d an iron and steel factor in Mariupol from \u201cUkrainian nationalists.\u201d The claims could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People look at a crater of an explosion in a village of Horodnya, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo\/George Ivanchenko)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, the Defense Ministry explained the damage to Russia\u2019s Black Sea flagship by a fire had caused ammunition stowed on board to detonate. In addition to the cruise missiles, the warship also had air-defense missiles and other guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ministry did not say what might have caused the blaze but reported that the \u201cmain missile weapons\u201d were not damaged and the crew, which usually numbers about 500, abandoned the vessel. It wasn\u2019t clear if there were any casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maksym Marchenko, the governor of Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea region of Odesa, said Ukrainian forces struck the Moskva with two Neptune missiles and caused \u201cserious damage.\u201d The Neptune is an anti-ship missile that was recently developed by Ukraine based on an earlier Soviet design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The missile\u2019s launchers are mounted on trucks stationed near the coast, and, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, can hit targets up to 280 kilometers (175 miles) away. That would have put the Moskva within range, based on where the ship was when the fire began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched as the Slava in 1979, the cruiser saw service in the Cold War and during conflicts in Georgia and Syria, and helped conduct peacetime scientific research with the United States. During the Cold War, it carried nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British defense officials said the Moskva\u2019s loss would likely force Moscow to change how its naval forces operate in the Black Sea. In a social media post Friday, the U.K. Ministry of Defense said the ship, which returned to operational service last year after a major refit, \u201cserved a key role as both a command vessel and air defense node.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Russian ships in the northern Black Sea moved farther south after the Moskva incident, a senior U.S. defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal military assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and has lsuffered thousands of military casualties. The conflict has killed untold numbers of Ukrainian civilians and forced millions more to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has also further inflated prices at grocery stores and gasoline pumps, while dragging on the global economy. The head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday that the war helped push the organization to downgrade economic forecasts for 143 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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