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Russian missiles end weeks of relative quiet across the western half of Ukraine

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More than four dozen Russian missiles hit cities across Ukraine over the weekend as G7 leaders met in Germany to discuss Russia's war on Ukraine and other topics.

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More than 50 Russian missiles fell on cities across Ukraine over the weekend. The escalation² ended weeks of relative quiet in the western half of Ukraine. NPR's Emily Feng is in Kyiv and reports.

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EMILY FENG, BYLINE³: This is the aftermath of a Sunday missile attack on Kyiv when NPR visited - in the very same neighborhood Russia had already struck in late April the very day the United Nations secretary-general was visiting Kyiv. This one hit just as G-7 leaders, including President Biden, were meeting in Germany to discuss Russia's invasion and two days before a NATO summit.

VITALI KLITSCHKO: It's maybe symbolic⁴, yeah, symbolic aggressions in - through these days (ph).

FENG: Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, called the strike symbolic aggression⁵. Republican Senator Jim Risch from Idaho was in Kyiv on Sunday to meet with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who he said was unbowed by the Russian strikes.

JIM RISCH: All the Ukrainians I've talked to, from the president on down to ordinary Ukrainian people, they will fight in the street with broomsticks if they have to. But the - but Russia will not occupy this country.

FENG: Heavy Russian shelling has actually unified⁶ Ukraine to fight against Russia. And on Sunday, a Ukrainian government spokesperson, Anton Gerashchenko, used Russia's most recent strike to rally Ukrainians.

ANTON GERASHCHENKO: (Speaking Ukrainian).

FENG: He told NPR, if today were a weekday, all the children studying and playing here would have died. Putin is killing⁷ Ukrainian children and women. One man died in the Sunday strikes on Kyiv. Two more people were left dead in strikes in the northeastern city of Kharkiv - a grim reminder⁸ that even though the war is focused in the east of Ukraine, Russia can still strike anywhere, any time. Emily Feng, NPR News, Kyiv.