Russia fired 40 missiles and about 580 drones at Ukraine in a “massive attack,” killing three people and wounding dozens, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday.
In the overnight attacks, “a missile with cluster munitions directly struck an apartment building” in the eastern city of Dnipro, Zelenskiy said on social media.
“All night, Ukraine was under a massive attack by Russia. The enemy launched 40 missiles — cruise and ballistic — and about 580 drones of various types,” he said. “As of now, we know of dozens of people injured from the shelling, and, unfortunately, three people killed.”
Photo: AFP, Ukranian Emergency Service
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak said the strikes killed one person and wounded 26, with one man in a serious condition.
Meanwhile,Chernihiv Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Chaus said a 62-year-old man died in a drone attack.
Ukraine issued a nationwide air alert, with officials reporting other strikes in the region around Kyiv.
About 20 residential buildings were damaged in the Khmelnytskyi region, local official Serhii Tiurin said, adding that one body was found “during the extinguishing of a fire in one of the houses.”
Meanwhile, Russian officials said their forces had repelled “massive” Ukrainian attacks in the Volgograd and Rostov regions, while one person was wounded in the nearby region of Saratov.
Russian air defense alert systems “intercepted and destroyed” 149 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said.
Hopes of a truce have faded since US President Donald Trump held separate high-profile meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskiy last month.
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