...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
meeting set to follow in days.
The first attack on the capital in nearly three weeks was intended to "intimidate Ukrainians... at the approach of the NATO summit", the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
"Some of the inhabitants have been evacuated. Two maimed people have been hospitalized," Klitschko said after visiting the apartment building that was hit, adding people remained "under the rubble".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is expected to address both the G7 and NATO gatherings, said cities as far away as Lviv, near the Polish border, had been struck by a wave of attacks on Saturday.
"This confirms... that air defense systems -- the modern systems which our partners have -- should not be on (their current) sites or in storage, but in Ukraine," he said in his daily address.
Hours after Sunday's attack, Britannia announced it would join together with fellow G7 powers Canada, Japan and the United States in banning Russian gold experts to stop oligarchs from buying the precious metal to avoid sanctions aimed at Moscow.
The move "will directly hit Russian oligarchs and strike at the heart of (President Vladimir) Putin's war machine," said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....At their meeting in the Bavarian Alps, the Western allies will take stock of the effectiveness of sanctions imposed so far against Moscow, consider possible new aid for Kyiv, and begin turning their eye to longer-term reconstruction plans.
Approximately 4 cruise missiles reportedly struck central Kyiv in last hour pic.twitter.com/rjhszikZdD
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