Russia launches large-scale drone and missile assault across Ukraine

Russian forces launched a large-scale missile and drone assault across Ukraine early on Saturday, officials said, striking cities and infrastructure in at least nine regions and killing at least three people while wounding dozens more. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the strikes hit Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, and that the enemy targeted infrastructure, residential areas and civilian enterprises.

Ukrainian authorities reported widespread damage. A missile equipped with cluster munitions struck a multistory residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro, Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel. In Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhii Lysak said at least 26 people were injured. Local officials in Kyiv region reported strikes in Bucha, Boryspil and Obukhiv, damaging homes and vehicles. Emergency services in Zaporizhzhia said explosions and fires damaged apartments, private houses and nonresidential premises, and the State Emergency Service later said the death toll in that region rose to three with additional injuries as rescue operations continued.

Ukraine’s Air Force said the barrage included 619...