The Russian Ministry of Defense warned Friday will intensify the attack on the capital of Ukraine Kyiv in response to attacks on Russian land, after accusing Ukraine targeting Russian border cities.
The number and scale of the missile strike on targets in Kyiv will increase in response to terrorist or sabotage attacks conducted by the Kyiv Nationalist regime in the Russian region,” his ministry said in his daily update.
It added that Russian forces crashed into the “military” factory outside Kyiv at the end of Thursday using a long-distance nine-based missile.
As a result of the strike on the construction of the Zhulyansky ‘Vizar engine, the workshop for the production and repair of the anti-aircraft and medium-sized missiles, and anti-ship missiles, were destroyed, destroyed, destroyed,” the ministry said
The ministry also said that the S-400 missile system shot down the Ukrainian MI-8 helicopter which conducted attacks on civilians in the Klimovo area in the Bryansk region on April 14″.
On Thursday, Moscow accused Ukraine to send a helicopter to bomb a village in the Russian Bryansk region – not far from the border with Ukraine – injuring eight people.
Then on the same day, the Head of the Belgorod Russian region said a village was close to the border peeled by Ukraine, while the population of this and the nearest village had been evacuated as a precaution.
Kyiv has denied the helicopter attack, instead of accusing Russia to hold an incident to arouse “anti-Ukrainian hysteria” in this country.
Separately, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Friday strategic rocket forces “eliminated up to 30 Poland’s mercenaries” in the attack in the village of Izyumskoe, not far from the city of Kharkiv in Northeast Ukraine.
It was said that the mercenaries belonged to “a private Polish military company”, but did not say whether there was a Ukrainian forces were also killed.
The rocket strike reported was one of the biggest foreign targets in Ukraine because other missiles killed what the Russian military claimed was up to 180 foreign mercenaries in West Ukraine last month.