‘Massive’ Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities kills five, 30 injured
- Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv killed four people, local authorities said
- Attacks were also recorded in the northeast and south of the country, as well as in the western Lviv region, hundreds of kilometres from the front lines
Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday in a “massive” early morning attack that killed at least five people and injured more than 30, officials in Kyiv said.
The wave of strikes came as the EU’s top diplomat was in the Ukrainian capital and with Kyiv calling on its Western allies to ramp up supplies of much-needed military aid, including air defences.
A strike on the capital Kyiv killed four people when a high-rise residential building was hit, triggering a large fire and engulfing its top floors in black smoke.
“Another massive attack against our country,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media.
Missile and drone attacks were also recorded in the northeast and south of the country, as well as in the western Lviv region, hundreds of kilometres from the front lines.
At least four people were killed in the hit to the residential building in Kyiv, while one person was killed in the southern Mykolaiv region, officials said.
