President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russians return to ‘miserable tactics,’ with 81 missiles fired across country
Russia launched a “massive” overnight strike on Ukraine early on Thursday, hitting critical infrastructure around the country with cruise missiles and explosive drones in the largest such attack for several weeks.
The Ukrainian military said the attack involved six hypersonic Kinzhal-47 cruise missiles, the first time Russia has fired the advanced weapon at Ukraine during more than a year of full-scale warfare. It’s unclear how many Kinzhal-47s – which Russia says fly at Mach 12, leaving Ukraine with no way of shooting them down – Moscow has in its arsenal.
Five people were killed when a cruise missile slammed into a residential area in the Lviv region of western Ukraine. Drone footage of the scene posted by Ukraine’s Interior Ministry showed at least one house had been completely destroyed, while several neighbouring homes were badly damaged. Another person was reportedly killed in the central Dnipro region.
The attacks cut the supply of electricity to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant – which is under Russian occupation but relies on electricity supplied by the Ukrainian grid – for the sixth time in the conflict. The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has monitors stationed at the plant, said diesel generators were being used as an emergency measure to keep reactor fuel cool and prevent a meltdown.
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