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Putin’s ‘middle finger’ to the UN sends clear message to the West

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visits the town of Borodyanka outside of Kyiv on Thursday [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Friday a missile attack on his city Kyiv was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s way of giving “his middle finger” to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the West over the war in Ukraine.

The targeting of the capital on Thursday killed at least one person and wounded 10 others, and was the first on Kyiv since Russia refocused its efforts on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Guterres and his team were not hurt.

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