Russia launches another wave of missiles and drones at Ukraine
Al Jazeera
Russia pounds its neighbour with missiles and drones for a second day in a row as Ukraine deploys air defence systems overnight.
Russia has launched waves of missile and drone attacks targeting several Ukrainian regions killing at least four people, according to Ukraine’s military, a day after it carried out a “massive” attack on Ukraine’s power grid.
Two people were killed when a hotel was “wiped out” in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, regional officials said on Tuesday. Two more people died in drone attacks on the city of Zaporizhzhia, east of Kryvyi Rih.
The Kyiv region’s air defence systems were deployed several times overnight to repel missiles and drones targeting Kyiv, the regional military administration said on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukrainian air defences shot down about 15 drones and several missiles near the Ukrainian capital during Russia’s overnight attack, Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on Tuesday morning.
“Everything that flew to the capital of Ukraine was destroyed,” he said on Telegram.
