Russia on Friday unleashed one of its biggest missile attacks on Ukraine of the war, killing 31 civilians, wounding more than 130 others, and hitting residential buildings in Kyiv, the south and west of the country, officials said.
The Ukrainian foreign ministry said the vast end-of-year air assault showed there should be “no talk of a truce” with the Kremlin at a time when uncertainty hangs over the future of vital Western support for Kyiv.
“Today, millions of Ukrainians awoke to the loud sound of explosions. I wish those sounds of explosions in Ukraine could be heard all around the world,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said, urging allies to continue with long-term military aid.
In the capital Kyiv at least three people were reported dead and twenty-two confirmed wounded after residential buildings and another uninhabited property were hit, police and other officials said.
A maternity ward, educational facilities, a shopping mall, multi-story residential buildings and private homes, a commercial storage, and a parking lot. Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and other cities.
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The Air Force said it had shot down 87 cruise missiles and 27 drones out of a total of 158 aerial “targets” fired by Russia.
