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As missiles strike Zaporizhzhia, alarms keep up fear

Kremlin fans concerns it could broaden the war

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An employee cleans the debris at the remains of a car shop after a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia Tuesday. Pic/AP

An employee cleans the debris at the remains of a car shop after a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia Tuesday. Pic/AP

A new round of missile attacks struck the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia Tuesday, as the death toll from the previous day’s widespread Russian missile barrage across Ukraine rose to 19. Missiles struck a school, a medical facility and residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, city council secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said. The State Emergency Service said 12 S-300 missiles slammed into public facilities. One person was killed. The S-300 was designed as a long-range surface-to-air missile. Air raid warnings extended throughout the country.

The state emergencies service said 19 people died and 105 people were wounded in Monday’s missile strikes that targeted critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv and 12 other regions. More than 300 cities and towns were without power, from the Ukrainian capital to Lviv on the border with Poland. With Ukrainian forces growing increasingly bold following battlefield successes, cornered Kremlin is ratcheting up Cold War-era rhetoric and fanning concerns it could broaden the war and suck in more combatants. Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, warned Tuesday Western military assistance to Kyiv including training Ukrainian soldiers has “increasingly drawn Western nations into the conflict.” Ryabkov said that “Russia will be forced to take relevant countermeasures, including asymmetrical ones.”

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