Russia fires overnight barrage against Ukraine, including Kyiv

Russian forces launched a large overnight barrage of missiles and attack drones against multiple regions of Ukraine, including strikes on the capital Kyiv, in one of the most sustained waves of attacks since the fullscale invasion began, Ukrainian and regional officials said on Sunday. Ukraine’s military reported the assault occurred overnight into Sunday and that Polish authorities had scrambled jets and temporarily closed airspace near two southeastern Polish cities as a precaution.

Ukraine’s Air Force said the strike involved several hundred unmanned aerial vehicles and dozens of missiles, and that its air defenses intercepted the majority of incoming weapons. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack lasted more than 12 hours, killed four people in Kyiv, including a child, and wounded around 80 people, while the Interior Ministry reported dozens of injuries and damage at more than 100 civilian sites nationwide. Regional governors reported further casualties across the country in the days of strikes that followed, with local officials in Lviv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson and Sumy describing deaths, multiple injuries and damage to homes, hospitals and...