Russian missile and drone strikes targeted cities across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, killing at least five people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian authorities said.
Four people were killed when a block of flats was hit in Kyiv’s south-western Holosiyivsky district. A man was also killed in the southern city of Mykolaiv, officials said.
The whole country was put under air alert and attacks were reported as far west as Lviv, near the Polish border.
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said Russia had fired 64 missiles and drones, of which 44 were intercepted. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russian cruise missiles were detected above the western regions of Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said initially that two people had been killed in “another massive attack against our country”. Further victims were found in the rubble of the 18-floor residential building.
Credit: bbc.com
