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| Russia says civilians were killed and injured in the attack (Image: Reuters) |
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian forces have struck one of Russia's "most important military factories." "The plant produced electronics and components for Russian missiles. "The very missiles that strike our towns, cities, and civilian populations," he stated. According to the military of Ukraine, British Storm Shadow missiles were fired at the Kremniy El plant in the border region of Bryansk. According to Russian local authorities, the "terrorist missile attack" resulted in at least six civilian deaths and 42 injuries. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said it was "obvious that the launch of these missiles was impossible without British specialists".
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Dmitry Peskov used the Russian term for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that Putin ordered on February 24, 2022, saying, "The special military operation is being conducted in order to prevent such barbaric actions by the Kyiv regime from continuing." Peskov said one of the goals of the Russian operation was to demilitarise Ukraine. Putin himself has often stated that demilitarisation is a central objective of the war.
But it is due to the Russian invasion that Ukraine has been receiving Western support - including sophisticated weapons aimed at defending its territories.
Russia, for its part, has also been receiving help from its allies, including Shahed drones supplied by Iran and soldiers sent by North Korea.
One of those drones was used in an attack which killed two people and injured another five in the second-largest city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said.
Another Russian attack a day earlier in Slovyansk, in eastern Ukraine, killed four and injured 16.
Both sides have continued attacks, even though the war has reached a stalemate recently.
Russia has been making slow advances in the battlefield, but Ukraine also says it is reclaiming more land seized by the Russians.
Zelensky says another round of talks - involving Russian and American negotiators - may be held next week.
The process is being led by US President Donald Trump, who has been trying to end the war.
The part of his proposal that calls for Ukraine to hand over parts of the Donbas to Russia, an industrial region made up of the administrative regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, is critical to how the talks turn out. Russia currently controls more than 80% of those areas - which Ukraine says it cannot agree to relinquish.
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