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Since anti-ship missiles are also coming from there, observers assume a retaliatory action for the loss of the warship.
After the attack on the missile factory near Kyiv, Russia announced further attacks on the Ukrainian capital. Explosions were heard there on Friday, the strongest since the withdrawal of Russian troops from the region around the Ukrainian capital two weeks ago. The attack in Kyiv was justified by the Russian Defense Ministry as retaliation for alleged Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, several of which the Russian authorities reported on Thursday.
Russia previously accused Ukraine of firing at least three rockets at an ammunition depot in the city of Belgorod on March 29. In early April, the government in Kyiv rejected Russian accusations that it was responsible for a major fire at a fuel depot near the city. This would have been the first known Ukrainian attack on targets in Russia since the beginning of the war. Information from the war zone cannot always be verified independently.
After withdrawing from the Kyiv region, Russia says it is concentrating on bringing the Donbass region under its control. There, pro-Russian separatists have controlled the areas around the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk since 2014. North of the particularly embattled city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, Ukraine reported successes that could not be independently verified.
The Russian invaders are aiming for the complete capture of Mariupol. So far, Russia has not captured any major cities.
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