At least ten people were killed and dozens more were injured after Russia launched a major overnight assault on cities across Ukraine.
Six people were killed in Dnipro, and thirty-six were injured following the strikes in the early hours of Tuesday. Four people were killed in Kyiv, and at least fifty-one were injured, with thirty-five of those hospitalized, officials reported.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two high-rise apartment buildings had been hit in the city, and there are fears people are trapped under rubble. Air raid warnings were in place across most of Ukraine, while large plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the center of Kyiv.
Last week, Moscow warned it would launch “systematic strikes” on Ukraine in response to a drone attack last month on a dormitory in Ukraine’s Russian-held Luhansk region, which killed twenty-one people.
The attacks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated warnings of a possible large Russian strike on Monday and urged residents to pay special attention to air raid alerts. “Intelligence warnings regarding Russian strikes remain in effect. A massive strike is possible; they have prepared one,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address.
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