Large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine leaves four dead and dozens injured

BBC:

Russia has launched a large-scale wave of strikes against Ukraine, firing hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was the main target, but other areas were also hit, with at least 83 people injured.

Four people were killed in the capital city and its surrounding areas, with explosions heard across the region overnight into Sunday, and reports of damage to residential buildings and schools.

Russia’s defence ministry said the Oreshnik hypersonic missile was used in the strikes, which it described as coming in response to Ukraine’s “attacks on civilian infrastructure”.

President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of a deadly strike on a student dormitory in the town of Starobilsk on Friday, in which 21 people were killed.

The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said it did carry out an attack near Starobilsk in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine overnight on Friday, but maintained that it struck an elite Russian military nit.

Russia’s overnight strikes on Sunday come after warnings from Zelensky that Russia was planning an attack, and that it may be preparing to use the Oreshnik missile, which reportedly travels at more than 10 times the speed of sound and is impossible to intercept.

It is also known to be capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads.