According to the Associated Press, citing Ukrainian officials, Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing one person in Kiev and damaging energy infrastructure in the south.One person died in the Kiev region and eight people, including a child, were rescued from the rubble of a destroyed building, Ukraine’s emergency services said on Sunday.
The attacks caused damage and fires in five districts on the outskirts of Kiev. In the village of Putrivka in the Fastiv district, emergency teams are working to rescue people trapped under rubble.In southern Ukraine, Russia attacked energy infrastructure in the Odessa region, sparking a fire that was later extinguished, emergency services said.According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 297 drones and 50 missiles of various types were used in the night attack. It is said that 274 drones and 33 missiles were shot down or otherwise disabled. Among the remaining missiles, 14 missiles and 23 drones hit 14 locations, while 3 missiles are still missing.The latest attack comes as Ukraine continues to face sustained airstrikes nearly four years after Russia launched a full-scale invasion. Moscow has stepped up its crackdown on Ukraine’s power grid in recent months, causing winter power and heating outages.Separately, Ukrainian President Zelensky said on Telegram on Sunday that an explosion occurred in the western city of Lviv, killing one person and injuring 25 others. One person has been arrested in connection with the incident, which officials said was not related to Russian airstrikes.On the Russian side, the Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 86 Ukrainian drones overnight. Two Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, injuring a security guard and causing a fuel tank to catch fire, Moscow-based leader Leonid Pasechnyk said.
