Russia launches ‘massive missile attack’:Officials said that at least 31 civilians were killed when Russia on Friday launched one of its worst aerial attacks on Ukraine since the war began,According to Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba, about 110 Russian missiles and several drones were fired at places like a maternity ward, schools, hospitals, residential buildings, and commercial zones।
Following the strikes in the morning local time, the number of deaths is being updated। The current total is at least 31 according to a CNBC count of local government reports।
According to Ukraine, Russia launched the largest aircraft bombardment of the conflict, killing thirty civilians.
Ukraine’s KYIV (AP) — At least 30 civilians were killed when Russia launched 122 missiles and many drones at sites in Ukraine on Friday, according to officials. This was the largest aerial bombardment of the war, according to an air force official.
During the roughly 18-hour assault, at least 144 people were injured, and it’s unclear how many were buried by debris, according to Ukrainian officials. Among the structures reported destroyed throughout Ukraine were schools, residential buildings and maternity hospitals.
Broken glass and shattered metal were all across the city streets of Kyiv, the capital. Flames of smoke drifted into a clear blue sky, accompanied by the sound of emergency service and air raid sirens.Kateryna Ivanivna, a 72-year-old Kyiv resident said she threw herself to the ground when a missile struck.
When did Russia invaded Ukraine?
In an intensification of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The invasion was the biggest onslaught on a European nation since the Second World War. Tens of thousands of civilian deaths and hundreds of thousands of military deaths are thought to have resulted from it in Ukraine.
Why did the Ukraine war start?
Following a hotly contested referendum, Russia quickly annexed Crimea. The Donbas war began in April 2014 when separatist troops supported by Russia took control of government facilities in the eastern Donbas area of Ukraine and declared the DPR and LPR to be independent nations.
What Ukraine refers to as Russia's "most massive aerial attack" of the conflict
Ukraine’s Kyiv According to reports, on Friday, Russia launched 122 missiles and many drones at sites in Ukraine, killing at least 22 civilians nationwide in what one air force official called the largest aerial bombardment of the conflict.
According to Ukraine’s military leader Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the majority of the ballistic and cruise missiles as well as the Shahed-type drones were intercepted by the air force during the course of the night.
The Air Force commander, Mykola Oleshchuk, described it as “the most massive aerial attack” since the full-scale Russian invasion that took place in February 2022 on his official Telegram channel.
