Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

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By JOHN LEICESTER23 minutes ago

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Wreckage lie along a street at a railway service facility hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Wreckage lie along a street at a railway service facility hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia took aim Sunday at Western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”

The Russian leader’s cryptic threat of a military escalation did not specify what the new targets might be, but it came days after the United States announced plans todeliver $700 million of security assistancefor Ukraine. Those weapons include four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, as well as helicopters, Javelin anti-tank systems, radars, tactical vehicles and more.

Military analysts say Russia hopes to overrun Ukraine’s embattled…

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