Russia fired scores of missiles into Ukraine early on Thursday, targeting Kyiv, the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, and other cities in a massive aerial bombardment, Ukrainian authorities said.
Ukraine’s military said it shot down 54 missiles out of more than 69 launched by Russia in an attack that began at 7 a.m. local time. Air raid sirens rang out across the country and in Kyiv sounded for five hours – in one of the longest alarms of the war.
Brigadier General Oleksiy Hromov of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said the missiles were fired at “critical and energy infrastructure facilities in the eastern, central, western and southern regions.”
