US prez 'fuelling' war in Ukraine, alleges Kremlin

The Kremlin accused US President Joe Biden on Monday of escalating the war in Ukraine by allowing Kyiv to use long-range missiles supplied by Washington to strike targets inside Russia.

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The comments came as Moscow unleashed a second missile attack in as many days on the Unesco-protected Ukrainian city of Odesa on the Black Sea that left 10 dead and more than 40 wounded.

Kyiv has long sought authorization from Washington to use the powerful Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, to hit military installations inside Russia as its troops come under growing pressure.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday he had visited the frontline city of Pokrovsk, which Russian forces are closing in on.

"This is a tense area. It is only thanks to the strength of the (Ukrainian) soldiers that the east is not completely occupied by Russia," he wrote on social media.