Moscow blames Kyiv for missile attacks in Russia as forces pound Ukrainian village

Russian forces attacked a village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its offensive in the country's southeast. Moscow accused Kyiv of wounding 20 people in an attack in southern Russia.

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July 28, 2023 - 3:11 PM

Platoon commanders of Ukraine’s National Guard take part in a military training in Kharkiv region, on July 26, 2023. Photo by (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces on Friday pounded a key village that Ukraine claimed to have recaptured in its grinding counteroffensive in the country’s southeast, while Moscow accused Kyiv of firing two missiles at southern Russia and wounding 20 people.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, marked Ukraine’s Statehood Day by reaffirming the country’s sovereignty — a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who used his claim that Ukraine didn’t exist as a nation to justify his invasion.

“Now, like more than a thousand years ago, our civilizational choice is unity with the world,” Zelenskyy said in a speech on a square outside St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv. “To be a power in world history. To have the right to its national history -– of its people, its land, its state. And of our children -– all future generations of the Ukrainian people. We will definitely win!”

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