The overnight attack lasted nearly nine hours and was the latest in a spate of aerial assaults on the Ukrainian capital
A Russian missile and drone barrage in Kyiv overnight Tuesday killed at least 14 people while they slept in their homes and wounded 44 others in one of the deadliest attacks on the Ukrainian capital in recent months, local officials said.
Russian drone strikes in the southern port city of Odesa also wounded 13 people, including one child, according to Oleh Kiper, the regional governor.
Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said 14 people were killed in the attack, which hollowed out a nine-storey residential building and destroyed dozens of flats. Emergency workers were at the scene to rescue people from under the rubble.
Ukraine’s Emergency Service said 44 people were wounded. Russia used 175 drones, over 14 cruise missiles and at least two ballistic missiles in the attack in Kyiv, the Kyiv City Military Administration said in a statement Tuesday, citing preliminary reports.
