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Russia approached its external debt default on Sunday for the first time in a century.

The payment of a total of $ 100 million in interest on the two bonds was originally due on May 27, but had a 30-day grace period.

Russia struggled to make such payments due to the restrictions and sanctions imposed on its financial activities in response to the invasion of Ukraine that began in late February.

Russian troops launched a new missile attack on the capitals of Ukraine's two largest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, on Sunday.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least two apartments in the city were attacked, killing at least one and injuring four.

Russia has also increased the use of cruise missiles and attacked targets in northwestern Ukraine. Air raid sirens rang in some cities.

"It's more of their savagery," US President Joe Biden said of Russia's strike against Kieu when he attended the G7 welcome ceremony with German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an important focus of the summit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address at a meeting on Monday.

Biden now bans US and other G7 countries importing Russian gold, the latest sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine, in the fifth month Said.

G-7 leaders, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States unite against Russia despite increasing global war victims Trying to maintain. The economy, including the United States, is facing a 40-year rise in consumer prices.

A new attack on Kieu occurred the day after Ukrainian troops withdrew from the eastern city of Severodonetsk. This was a big victory for Russia after several weeks of fierce fighting.

Russia now controls almost all of Luhansk Oblast, which is part of the eastern Donbus region that Moscow is about to take over, and is one of its major war objectives.

Ukraine stated that Russian troops had completely occupied Lysychans'k, the neighboring city of Sieviero Donetsk in eastern Luhansk. Moscow claimed to have surrounded about 2,000 Ukrainian troops in the area.

Some information in this report was provided by The Associated Press and Reuters.