Deadly Russian strikes pound Ukraine for second day, as Kyiv claims land, settlements in Kursk
- Russia’s massive drone and missile strikes on Ukraine killed 4, triggering blackouts, and spurring Kyiv’s call for Western weapons
Russia fired a wave of attack drones and missiles at Ukraine that killed at least four people, authorities said on Tuesday, after a second night of heavy strikes across the war-battered nation.
Within hours of the barrage, Ukraine claimed fresh advances in its surprise assault on Russia’s Kursk border region and reported taking nearly 600 Russian troops as prisoners in the past three weeks.
“Crimes against humanity cannot be committed with impunity,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media, reporting on Tuesday four killed and 16 wounded.
Zelensky also said that his military had recently carried out the first successful test of a domestically-produced ballistic missile.
“There has been a positive test of the first Ukrainian ballistic missile. I congratulate our defence industry on this. I can’t share any more details about this missile,” he said at a press conference in the Ukrainian capital.
Monday’s attack was one of Moscow’s largest-ever on Ukraine, prompting Kyiv to push for allies’ permission to use Western-provided weapons to strike deep inside Russia.