Kyiv rocked by one of Ukraine war's largest Russian air attacks
Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa in attacks that killed at least two people, officials said on Tuesday.
The overnight strikes followed Russia's biggest drone assault of the war on Ukraine on Monday and were part of intensified bombardments that Moscow says are retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia.
Loud explosions shook Kyiv and blasts and fires lit up the sky in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving palls of heavy smoke over the city, Reuters witnesses said.
At least four people were treated in hospital after seven of the capital's 10 districts were hit, city officials said.
An explosion overnight in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Reuters
'Today was one of the largest attacks on Kyiv,' President Volodymyr Zelensky said. 'Russian missile and Shahed (drone) strikes drown out the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace.'
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