At least 8 dead and Poland scrambles jets as Putin launches ‘massive’ strikes

Описание: At least 8 people, including three children, have been killed across Ukraine after Russia launched a wave of ballistic missiles and drones across the country, hours after Volodymyr Zelensky warned of an impending “massive attack” by Moscow. Zelensky said Russia launched 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, and over 280 drones in the overnight attack. He said dozens of ordinary homes, civilian businesses, and infrastructure facilities were destroyed.
Explosions echoed across Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday as air raid sirens sounded in the capital, where strikes killed at least one person. At least six people, including children, have been killed and eight others injured in a Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian officials said. Another person was killed in Poltava Oblast following a strike on a warehouse in the region. The western city of Lviv, close to the Polish border, also came under attack, prompting Poland to scramble fighter jets.

Polish police said they found a 10m-wide crater and scattered debris in a field left by an unidentified object that disappeared from army radars tracking it in ⁠domestic airspace.

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