All of Ukraine spent much of Thursday morning under air raid alerts after Russia launched its largest air barrage in nearly two weeks. Sirens rang out in cities near the Russian border to the country’s relatively peaceful west. The scale of the damage remained unclear, but Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack.
Russian forces fired more than 120 missiles “to destroy critical infrastructure and commit civilian mass murder,” tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office.
Military administrators in at least six of Ukraine’s 25 regions confirmed blasts in their areas.
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