Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin suspends key US-Russia nuclear treaty

Air raid sirens went off across Ukraine on Wednesday due to jets taking off in Belarus.

There were four strikes from Russian S-300 missiles on industrial infrastructure facilities in central Kharkiv, the head of Kharkiv's Regional Military Administration Oleh Synegubov said.

Two men, ages 46 and 57, were injured from the attacks. They have both been hospitalized.

In Izyum, a city in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, a 55-year-old civilian stepped on a "petal" mine. He was hospitalized with an explosive wound, Synehubov said.

One person was killed and another person was injured from fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Tuesday, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

-ABC News' Natalia Kushnir

The United States believes that Russia carried out a test launch of an intercontinental missile on Saturday that appears to have failed, a U.S. official said.

Russia notified the U.S. ahead of the SARMAT ICBM launch, per agreements said the official.

The failed test launch would have taken place two days before President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on an unannounced trip, as he made his way to Poland to meet with NATO allies and to give a speech marking a year of war.

Ukrainian officials on Sunday publicly claimed Russia was preparing to stage large scale nuclear exercises including a launch to coincide with Biden's trip.

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Correction: This post initially stated the test happened on Monday when Biden was in Ukraine. It has been updated to reflect that the test actually happened on Saturday.

Russia has suspended the New START nuclear arms treaty with the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

But he emphasised that Russia was not leaving the treaty yet, only suspending its participation in its for the time-being.

He blamed the suspension on the West, saying relations had degraded and that it was impossible currently to allow American inspections of Russian strategic nuclear sites.

Putin's decision was announced on Tuesday as he gave an annual state-of-the-union speech in Moscow, days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the invasion into Ukraine.

He also accused the United States of considering restarting nuclear bomb tests and threatened that Russia would hold them too if that happened.

That will be interpreted as a veiled threat in relation to the war in Ukraine -- experts have feared Russia might conduct a nuclear bomb test to intimidate Kyiv and its Western allies. Putin ordered Russia’s military to prepare the possibility to hold a test.

“Some actors in Washington are thinking about testing nuclear weapons,” he said. “The defense ministry and RosAtom must prepare also to conduct nuclear tests in case of necessity. But Russia will not conduct it first.”

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened his state of the union speech in Moscow with familiar touchstones, including ridding the world of Nazism and liberating Ukraine's Donbas region.

He said of his Ukrainian invasion that the "historic events will determine the future of our country ... each of us is bound by a huge responsibility."

And he said he sought an "open dialogue" with the West, but also blamed Western countries and Ukraine's leaders for holding the country's people "hostage."

"The United States and NATO have been rapidly deploying their bases and biolabs at the borders of our country," he said.

He said Russia tried to settle the conflict in the Donbas region by peaceful means, adding that the West's commitment to peace turned out to be "fraud" and a "cruel lie."

Putin said they were open to dialogue with the West and were open to an equal system of security, but "in response we were getting dishonest answers" and specific actions to expand NATO and deploy new anti-missile systems in Europe. He said that "the whole planet is dotted" with U.S. bases.

-ABC News' Joe Simonetti