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Several buildings were damaged in the wealthy suburbs of Moscow, including the elite district of Rublyovka to the south-west of the capital, Daily Mail reported. One drone exploded into a mushroom cloud near the village of Usovo, which is just down the road from Putin's official Novo-Ogaryovo residence, the report said.

The Russian presence in the crisis-ridden country has been gradually increasing since the last batch of French soldiers, stationed in its former colony since the brutal 2013 civil war, left the capital Bangui in December.

They were all reportedly shot down and there are no reports of casualties, the BBC reported. Flaming debris from the intercepted missiles landed in residential areas in central Kiev. Russia has launched 16 air attacks on the Ukrainian capital this month. The latest, however, was unusual because it took place during the day -- and seemed to be targeted at the city centre, the BBC reported.

"Lindsey Olin Graham, an American citizen, born on July 9, 1955, is wanted under an article of the Russian Criminal Code," the state-run TASS News Agency quoted the Investigative Committee as saying. The criminal proceedings against the Senator was ordered the Committee's chief Alexander Bastrykin.

"Of course, it's an unacceptable escalation... I think there are reasonable people in the West who understand this. But everything is being dictated by Washington, London, and their satellites inside the EU," he said on potential deliveries of American-made warplanes to Ukraine in an interview with Russia 1 TV on Sunday, RT reported.

The ambassador of Sweden Malena Mard was summoned to the ministry, and was notified that Moscow had decided to expel five Swedish diplomats, including three employees working at the defence attache office at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow, the ministry was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying.

On May 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a draft law on the denunciation of the CFE Treaty to the lower house of the parliament. The chamber adopted a law on the denunciation of the treaty at a session on May 16, Xinhua news agency reported. The CFE Treaty was originally signed in 1990 by the then-NATO members.

The Minister on Wednesday mentioned that "a Ukrainian nationalist formation" that broke into Russia's Belgorod region on Monday was defeated. "Russia will keep responding to such actions of Ukrainian militants promptly and harshly," Shoigu said. The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that "more than 70 Ukrainian nationalists.

According to preliminary data, there are no victims and the consequences on the ground are being clarified, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Tuesday in a Telegram post, without disclosing if the drones were launched by Ukraine. He added that the Grayvoron district and the Borisov district of the Belgorod region.

Following days of protests, hundreds of demonstrators from home and abroad on Sunday rallied against the G7 leaders' communique and other documents adopted by the summit in Hiroshima, a city once devasted by US atomic bombing during World War II, Xinhua news agency reported. Placards and banners that read No War-themed.