At least 8 people, including three children, have been killed across Ukraine after Russia launched a wave of ballistic missiles and drones across the country, hours after Volodymyr Zelensky warned of an impending “massive attack” by Moscow.
Zelensky said Russia launched 70 missiles, many of them ballistic, and over 280 drones in the overnight attack. He said dozens of ordinary homes, civilian businesses, and infrastructure facilities were destroyed.
Explosions echoed across Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday as air raid sirens sounded in the capital, where strikes killed at least one person.
At least six people, including children, have been killed and eight others injured in a Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian officials said.
Another person was killed in Poltava Oblast following a strike on a warehouse in the region. The western city of Lviv, close to the Polish border, also came under attack, prompting Poland to scramble fighter jets.
Polish police said they found a 10 cm-wide crater and scattered debris in a field left by an unidentified object that disappeared from army radars tracking it in domestic airspace.
Russia says enterprise caught fire after drone attack in Krasnodar region
Russian regional authorities said on Thursday that an enterprise caught fire in the southern Krasnodar region, in the village of Volna, after debris from a Ukrainian drone fell there.
The authorities did not specify which enterprise was was affected.
Russia pounds Ukraine with 70 missiles, 280 drones, Zelensky says
Russia launched more than 70 missiles and 280 drones during a major attack on Ukraine overnight, president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.
Zelensky said on the Telegram app that Ukraine continued to suffer from critical shortages in its air defences and he urged his international partners for help.
Polish police find crater and debris amid Russian strikes on Ukraine
Polish police found a crater and scattered debris in a field left by an unidentified object that disappeared from army radars tracking it in domestic airspace during Russian strikes on Ukraine, authorities said on Thursday.
Poland scrambled fighter jets to secure its airspace after Russian air strikes killed at least 13 in neighbouring Ukraine, including one in Kyiv, the capital, in attacks that spread as far as the western city of Lviv."
An unidentified object moving westward was detected in Polish airspace," the operational command of the armed forces said on X, adding that it disappeared from radars soon after the sighting at 3.40am.
A Mi-24 helicopter that went to the object's last location to verify and confirm the radar data pinpointed the likely crash site, it added.
"A helicopter crew located the probable crash site of the object in an undeveloped area near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in the Lublin province."The crater was about 10 m (33 ft) wide, the interior ministry added on X.Police in the Lublin region said they received a report of a loud bang in Biłgoraj county, between the villages of Tarnawa Kolonia and Biskupice."
Officers discovered a crater and scattered debris from an unidentified object in a field located about 2km (1.2 miles) from the nearest buildings, between the villages," the police added on X.
Sirens sounded in Lublin for a few minutes to warn against the Russian strikes, media said.
Founder of Russian drone company shot
The director and founder of a Russian drone manufacturing company was shot and wounded early on Wednesday in what prosecutors described as an "attempted murder."
Andrei Cherezov heads the Russian Air Transport Laboratory, best known for developing the Ovod family of combat drones.
Cherezov was returning home from work at around 1am when he was attacked by an unidentified assailant in the city of Tula, about 150km (90 miles) south of Moscow, according to Russia's Izvestia newspaper.
Pictures: Residents evacuated from buildings after Russian strikes
Poland secures 10m-wide crater after explosion
Polish firefighters are securing the site of a 10-metre-wide crater in Tarnawa-Kolonia, in the Lublin region of eastern Poland, after receiving reports of an explosion, Radio Zet reported on Thursday.
Sirens sounded overnight in the Lublin region due to Russian air strikes on Ukraine, PAP reported.
The Polish military said an unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace overnight and later the probable crash site of the object was found near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia.
Poland had earlier scrambled fighter jets due to the ongoing Russian strikes across the border in Ukraine.
Russia confirms attack on cities including Kyiv and Lviv
Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday its forces struck what it called military facilities across Ukraine, in areas from the capital Kyiv to Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk, as well as three cargo ships.
The dry cargo vessels, which the ministry accused of carrying weapons and military equipment, were hit around the Black Sea city of Odesa, it added on the Telegram messaging app.
At least 13 killed across Ukraine as strikes expand to Zelensky's hometown
Russian air strikes killed at least 13 people so far in Ukraine on Thursday, including two young girls aged five and 12, as Moscow unleashed a wave of missile and drone attacks.
The attacks reached from president Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih to the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv.
The attacks came as Zelensky returned from the US where he said president Donald Trump had agreed to grant Ukraine licences to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.
Air raid alerts sounded across most of Ukraine overnight, with explosions heard in Kyiv. Fires broke out at several non-residential sites in the capital after falling debris, mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
One person was killed and two others injured in Kyiv, emergency services said. Six more people, including the two children, were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.
In Zelensky's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, the two girls were among six people killed when a Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile struck a private home, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city's defence council. Eight others were injured.
"A dark night," Vilkul wrote on Telegram, saying the missile was launched from Russia's Voronezh region and hit the home of a large family. He warned the death toll could rise as rescuers continued clearing the rubble.
In Lviv, near the Polish border, Russian missiles damaged two apartment buildings and injured 15 people.
Rescue workers were searching through the debris for anyone trapped beneath the wreckage.
Death toll in Ukraine rises to eight in Russia's 'massive' overnight strike
One person has been killed in Ukraine's Poltava region, bringing the death toll from Russia's latest wave of strikes to eight.
The victim was killed in a strike on a warehouse, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
The nationwide death toll has now risen to eight following a massive Russian drone and ballistic missile attack that president Volodymyr Zelensky had warned was likely before it began.
Pictures from Lviv and Kyiv show extensive damage
Latest pictures from Ukraine show residents reacting with shock as Russian missiles and drones strike residential buildings.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing in the hard-hit cities of Lviv and Kyiv.