Russia attacks Kyiv with destructive overnight missile blizzard

Russia attacks Kyiv with destructive overnight missile blizzard

Russia has today unleashed another deadly wave on Ukraine, with a relentless series of missile strikes smashing into residential buildings and critical infrastructure facilities across the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of spreading fresh 'terror and murder' across Ukraine - hours after a newborn was killed in an attack on a maternity hospital.
The latest air strikes hit a two-storey residential building in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, killing at least three people and injuring nine more, as well as critical infrastructure facilities in and around the city.
The bodies of three civilians killed in the Russian missile strikes lay on the ground in central Kyiv, with police officers and medics standing mournfully by their side.
Ukrainian firefighters, working amongst the blackened shells of burned out cars, rushed to extinguish fires at buildings in central Kyiv and in the town of Vyshgorod on the outskirts of the capital
Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grid left residents in the entire Kyiv region, western city of Lyiv, the northern city of Kharkiv and the southern Odesa region without electricity.
The bombardment also caused blackouts across half of neighbouring Moldova, the deputy prime minister of the country said on Wednesday.
Air sirens blared across Ukraine and locals reported seeing Ukrainian air defence systems in action in several parts of the country.
Multiple regions across Ukraine reported attacks in quick succession, suggesting a barrage of strikes by the Russian military.
The renewed barrage will pile further hardship on a country already labouring from repeated strikes on its power grid, with Russia seemingly intent on turning the onset of winter into a weapon, by pounding Ukraine's key infrastructure from the air.