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Russia Launches Deadly New Wave of Missiles and Drones at Ukraine
The bombardment that began on Monday could have additional significance, coming three weeks after the Ukrainian military’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
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An early morning barrage hit several locations across Ukraine, including a hotel in Kryvyi Rih where at least four people were killed and several others wounded, Ukrainian officials said.CreditCredit…Andrii Gorb/ReutersRussia launched a fresh wave of pre-dawn missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and several other large Ukrainian cities on Tuesday, the second day of a deadly, far-reaching bombing campaign that comes as Moscow fights to fend off a Ukrainian offensive on Russian soil.
The early-morning barrage hit a hotel in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing four people and wounding several others, according to the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, who posted photographs showing the ruins of the hotel. The local authorities said two people also were killed in the city of Zaporizhzhia and that debris from downed missiles or drones sparked small fires in the capital, Kyiv.
Despite the bombardments of the last two days, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a forum in Kyiv that he would press ahead with a diplomatic strategy to start talks.
Russia has over the past year fired large volleys roughly once a month in attempts to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense systems with drones and missiles launched from multiple directions.
Many areas close to the front lines in Ukraine come under daily assault from Russian forces. But this week’s strikes have revived a broader sense of fear among civilians in bigger cities as air raid sirens blare, and drones and missiles tear into hotels and residential buildings. Attacks on energy infrastructure have disrupted water and power supplies, deepening the hardships of war.
“It was hard yesterday,” said Samir Mamedov, 33, a Kyiv resident who works in business development. “We were running to the shelter because it was a big bombing.”
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