Russia bombards Ukraine cities with missiles

• Russian missile attacks target cities all around Ukraine.
• Ukrainian military: 69 missiles fired, 54 of which were shot down by air defenses.
• Russia allegedly assaulted Ukraine from “different directions”.

One of the biggest bombardments since the war started has seen a wave of Russian missile attacks target cities all around Ukraine.

Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported that explosions in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv resulted in the hospitalisation of at least three individuals, among them a 14-year-old girl.

In the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, and Zhytomyr, blasts were also audible.

According to the Ukrainian military, 69 missiles were fired, 54 of which were shot down by air defenses.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential adviser, earlier claimed that more than 120 missiles had been fired towards infrastructure used by civilians.

Maksym Marchenko, the regional governor of the southern province of Odesa, described a “huge missile attack on Ukraine” after the airstrike, which lasted for about five hours.

Russia allegedly assaulted Ukraine from “different directions with air and sea-based cruise missiles,” according to the Ukrainian Air Force. It further mentioned that several Kamikaze drones had been used.

In an operational briefing, Brig Gen Oleksiy Hromov stated that the attacks had targeted energy infrastructure all around the nation.

According to the municipal military authority, debris from thwarted missiles damaged two homes in Kyiv. According to Mr. Klitschko, air defences shot down 16 missiles above the city.

Governor Vitaly Kim said that air defences in the southern district of Mykolaiv stopped five missiles, while Mayor Andriy Sadovy reported that many explosions had been recorded in the western city of Lviv.

Mr. Marchenko reported that the Ukrainian military shot down 21 missiles in the Odesa region. A residential building had been struck by missile fragments, he continued, but there had been no injuries.

A senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reported that a missile had struck a resident’s home in a settlement in the western part of Ivano-Frankivsk but had not exploded.

The strikes, according to Mr. Podolyak, were “evil,” and he charged Moscow of wanting “to destroy essential infrastructure and kill civilians in enormous quantities.”

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