GRIEVING:
Regional officials announced that today is a day of mourning in a village in Dnipropetrovsk, where six people, including three children, were killed
Russia yesterday pounded Ukraine with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, killing eight people in overnight attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, decrying shortages of air defense supplies and urging allies to help. Russia launched more than 70 missiles and about 280 drones, Zelenskiy said in a statement on the Telegram app. The capital, Kyiv, and the western region of Lviv on Ukraine’s border with Poland were the main focus of the attack, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
A man looks at an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike in Lviv, Ukraine, yesterday.
Poland, an EU and NATO member, scrambled fighter jets to secure its airspace during the attack. Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha said a Russian cruise missile crossed into Poland, after authorities there found a crater and debris in a field following reports of an explosion.
