SNAPSHOT-Russia's war on Ukraine latest: Kremlin says Putin targeted

* However, Zelenskiy said Russia did not appear to be interested in extending the deal. * U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co could process another 40 Russian grain export payments, two sources said.

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel, and threatened to retaliate. FIGHTING

* The Kremlin said two drones had been used but were disabled by electronic defences. Kyiv denied involvement. * Zelenskiy said Ukraine would launch a counteroffensive soon and he was sure the West would supply Kyiv with modern warplanes afterwards. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said the counteroffensive had begun.

* Sixteen civilians were killed in heavy Russian shelling of Ukraine's Kherson region that hit a hypermarket, a railway station and residential buildings. * Scores of firefighters battled a huge fire that Russian authorities blamed on a Ukrainian drone crashing into an oil terminal on Russia's side of the bridge it built to occupied Crimea.

* In Ukraine, a fuel depot was also on fire after a suspected Russian drone strike on the central city of Kropyvnytskyi. DIPLOMACY/POLITICS

* German police said Zelenskiy would travel to Berlin on May 13, though a security source later said public disclosure of the visit was premature and it was now unclear if it would go ahead. * The European Union moved ahead with plans to buy urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine as well as ramping up the bloc's ability to produce munitions.

* Darya Trepova, accused of assassinating a prominent Russian military blogger, has said she is "insanely sorry" for delivering the bomb that killed him, but that she did not know the true content of the parcel. ECONOMY

* Russia said it would continue talks with the United Nations and other parties to the Black Sea grain deal, and that Moscow would not do anything to harm its own interests. * However, Zelenskiy said Russia did not appear to be interested in extending the deal.

* U.S. bank JPMorgan Chase & Co could process another 40 Russian grain export payments, two sources said. SPORT

* Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin is fighting British sanctions to resurrect his racing career. QUOTES

* "The Kremlin has assessed these actions as a planned terrorist act and an assassination attempt on the president on the eve of Victory Day, the May 9 Parade" - RIA news agency. * "We don't attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory" - Zelenskiy.

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