Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital and other cities across the country on Sunday with nearly 600 drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least four people in Kyiv and injuring dozens more in an hourslong assault.
“A massive Russian attack on Ukraine lasted for more than 12 hours,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a statement. “Savage strikes, a deliberate, targeted terror against ordinary cities. ”
The Ukrainian Air Force said the attack started at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday and continued into Sunday morning. Nearly 600 drones and 48 missiles were launched in the assault, it said in a statement, adding that five missiles and 31 drones had evaded air defenses.
The number of dead and injured was likely rise as emergency crews scrambled to search for survivors, Ukrainian officials said.
Officials said that Kyiv, the capital, was the primary target of Sunday’s attack and that a 12-year-old girl was among the dead. Ukraine’s Cardiology Institute was damaged, officials said, along with an industrial bakery, a tire manufacturing plant, homes and apartment buildings.
At least 27 people were injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia in Russian rocket attacks that damaged at least 14 apartment buildings, Ukrainian officials said. Attacks were also reported in Sumy, Odessa and other parts of the country.
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