Russia launched a major attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and killed at least 13 people in strikes across the country as the two sides released hundreds more prisoners on the second day of aΒ major prisoner exchange.
At least four people have been killed in the eastern Donetsk region, five in the southern Kherson and Odesa regions, and four in the northern Kharkiv region in the past 24 hours, according to regional officials.
Ukraineβs Air Force said Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and 250 attack drones on the country, with the βmain focusβ being the capital Kyiv. It said air defenses shot down six of those missiles and 245 of the drones, with projectiles also hitting the Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions.
βIt was a difficult night for all of Ukraine,β President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, expressing his condolences to families and loved ones of the injured.
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