Ukraine’s air force said it had intercepted 15 out of 20 drones and 29 out of 44 missiles
A barrage of Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities killed five people on Wednesday and injured 50 more, including a pregnant woman.
“It’s another massive attack against our state,” president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a statement.
Cities across Ukraine were hit, including the capital Kyiv, with Russia continuing regular assaults on Ukrainian cities as the two-year anniversary of the full-scale war approaches.
The assault came as Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, was spending the night in Kyiv as part of a two-day visit to the capital to discuss EU support for Ukraine. “Starting my morning in the shelter as air alarms are sounding across Kyiv,” he wrote on X.