At least 3 people have been killed and 13 wounded in Russia’s massive drone and missile attack on two Ukrainian cities in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called “one of the biggest” strikes in the 3-year-old war.
The attack struck Kyiv and the southern port city of Odesa. In an online statement made by Zelenskyy, he said that Moscow’s forces fired over 315 drones, most of them Shaheds, and seven missiles overnight.
“Russian missile and Shahed strikes are louder than the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace,” Zelenskyy wrote, urging “concrete action” from the U.S. and Europe in response.
According to the regional head Oleh Kiper, a maternity hospital and residential buildings in the southern port of Odesa were damaged in the attack. The regional prosecutor’s office also reported that the attack resulted in two fatalities and nine injuries.
On Telegram, the regional head, Tymur Tkachenko, wrote, “Another person was killed in Kyiv’s Obolonskyi district.”
“Russian strikes are once again hitting not military targets but the lives of ordinary people. This once again shows the true nature of what we are dealing with,” he said.
Explosions and the buzzing of drones were heard around the city for hours.
