Ukraine came under massive aerial bombardment early Tuesday as Russian forces used missiles, including Kinzhal rockets, and Iranian-made Shahed drones to attack the country, according to local media reports.
An air-raid warning lasted for some eight hours in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding Kyiv region, with about a dozen attack drones and several missiles downed near Kyiv, according to city administration head Serhii Popko, who added that “everything flying towards the capital was destroyed” and that there had been no casualties reported.
A Russian missile hit a four-storey hotel in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine at midnight, partially destroying it, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. It added that two people were killed and five others were injured in the attack, and that the search for two people believed to be trapped in the rubble was ongoing.
Three people were killed and five more were injured in Russian attacks on the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, Governor Ivan Fyodorov wrote on Telegram, adding that the region had sustained some 208 airstrikes on 14 population centres over the course of the day.