Russia launches heavy missile strikes on Kyiv after Ukraine drone attack
A large ballistic missile attack pounded Kyiv early on Sunday local time, authorities said, wounding at least five people after Moscow threatened retaliation for strikes in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine.
TL;DR
- Kyiv experienced a mass ballistic missile attack early Sunday, with at least five people wounded.
- The attack caused damage to residential buildings in several districts of the capital.
- This followed a Ukrainian drone strike in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine that killed at least 18 people in a college dormitory.
- Moscow had threatened retaliation for the Ukrainian drone strike.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv had warned of a possible significant Russian airstrike.