RUSSIA struck a number of targets in the Ukrainian capital Kiev today as President Vladimir Putin warned against the use of Western-supplied long-range missiles. 

Footage released by the Russian Defence Ministry appeared to show the aftermath of an air strike on a stockpile of Ukrainian armoured vehicles and tanks in eastern Kiev. 

Ukraine said that missiles struck railway facilities and other infrastructure in the early hours of the morning.

Mr Putin warned that if Western-supplied weapons were used against Russia it was ready to respond by striking “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”

Russian-backed forces in the eastern Donbass region said they had concluded investigations against British soldier Aidan Aslin who was captured after surrendering in Mariupol last month. 

No further details were immediately available — but prosecutors confirmed that he faces the death penalty. Russia itself has not carried out any executions since 1996 and Ukraine hasn’t since 1997, but the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics” reintroduced the death penalty in 2014.

Mr Aslin is a former care worker from Nottingham who previously fought in the People’s Protection Units (YPG) against Isis in northern Syria. 

He moved to Ukraine and joined the country’s armed forces as a marine in 2018 and had been fighting on the front line in the Donbass.