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Russia sends hundreds of drones and missiles into 15 Ukrainian regions, killing at least 4

Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine on Monday, targeting energy infrastructure. At least four people were reported killed, and power cuts were reported across the country.

Energy facilities in at least 4 regions hit in barrage

Russia unleashes large-scale drone, missile attack on Ukraine

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Russia launched more than 100 missiles and around 100 attack drones at Ukraine during the morning rush hour on Monday, killing at least five people, officials said. People took cover inside the city's subway stations.

Russia battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozenand damaged energy facilities in attacks that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as "vile."

The barrageof over 100 missiles and a similar number of drones began around midnight and continued beyond daybreak in what appeared to be Russia's biggest onslaught in weeks.

Ukraine's air force said swarms of Russian drones fired at eastern, northern, southernand central regions were followed by volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles.

"Like most previous Russian strikes, this one was just as vile, targeting critical civilian infrastructure," Zelenskyy said, adding that most of the country was targeted from the Kharkiv region and Kyiv to Odesa and the west.

Explosions were heard in the capital of Kyiv. Power and water supplies in the city were disrupted by the attack, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Russiafired drones, cruise missiles and hypersonic ballistic Kinzhal missiles at 15 Ukrainian regions more than half the country.

"The energy infrastructure has once again become the target of Russian terrorists. Unfortunately, there is damage in a number of regions," Shmyhal said, adding that the state-owned power grid operator, Ukrenergo, has been forced to implement emergency power cuts to stabilize the system.

Two firefighters in full uniform and helmet are shown with their backs to the camera utilizing a firehose as massive clouds of smoke and some orange fire are shown.
Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid an attack across several regions of Ukraine, in Odesa on Monday. (Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Odesa/Reuters)

He urged Ukraine's allies to provide it with long-range weapons and permission to use them on targets inside Russia.

"In order to stop the barbaric shelling of Ukrainian cities, it is necessary to destroy the place from which the Russian missiles are launched," Shmyhal said. "We count on the support of our allies and will definitely make Russia pay."

U.S. President Joe Biden called the Russian attack on energy infrastructure "outrageous" and said he had "re-prioritized U.S. air defence exports so they are sent to Ukraine first." He also said the U.S. was "surging energy equipment to Ukraine to repair its systems and strengthen the resilience of Ukraine's energy grid."

The Russian Defence Ministry said the attacks used "long-range precision air- and sea-based weapons and strike drones against critical energy infrastructure facilities that support the operation of Ukraine's military-industrial complex. All designated targets were hit."

Blackouts in several locations

At least four people were killed one in the western city of Lutsk, one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, one in Zhytomyr in the country's centre and one in the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region in the southeast according to local officials. Thirteen others were wounded one in the Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, five in Lutsk, three in the southern Mykolaiv region and four in the neighbouring Odesa region.

Blackouts and damage to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were reported across the country, from the region of Sumy in the east, to the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions in the south, to the region of Rivne in the west.

Adults and children are shown sitting and standing inside what appears to be a subway station. A boy lays on a mat near his family.
People take cover inside a metro station during a Russian missile and drone strike, in Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Monday. (Yurii Kovalenko/Reuters)

In Sumy, a province in the east that borders Russia, local administration said that 194 settlements lost power,while 19 others had a partial blackout. The private energy companyDTEKintroduced emergency blackouts, saying in a statement that "energy workers throughout the country work 24/7 to restore light in the homes of Ukrainians."

In the wake of the barrage and the power cuts, regional officials all across Ukraine were ordered to open "points of invincibility" shelter-type places where people can charge their devices and get refreshments during energy blackouts,Shmyhal said.

Such points were first opened in Ukraine in the fall of 2022, when Russia targeted the country's energy infrastructure with weekly barrages.

A low-rise building is shown. It appears to be a residential building and part of its roof is missing as a crane overhead is shown, with water appearing to be sprayed from the crane.
Firefighters work at the site where an apartment building was hit by a Russian drone strike, in Lutsk on Monday. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Volyn/Reuters)

In neighbouring Poland, the military said Polish and NATO air defences were activated in the eastern part of the country as a result of the attack.

Russia promises response to Kursk incursion

In Russia, officials reported a Ukrainian drone attack overnight. Four people were injured in the central region of Saratov, where drones hit residential buildings in two cities.

One drone struck a residential high-rise in the city of Saratov, and another hit a residential building in the city of Engels, home to a military airfield that had been attacked before, local officials said.

Russia's Defence Ministry said that a total of 22 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight and in the morning over eight Russian regions, including the Saratov and Yaroslavl regions in central Russia.

Russia also said its troops had fended off Ukrainian attempts to advance on half a dozen settlements in the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an incursion on Aug. 6 that caught Russia off guard.

The fighting in the Kursk region has raised concerns about the nuclear energy plant there. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said he would visit the plant on Tuesday.

A missile is shown leaving a platform, with a fiery trail, in an image captured from video.
In this photo taken from video released by the Russian Defence Ministry on Sunday, a Russian Army Buk-2M self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile system fires at air targets in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russia Defence Ministry Press Service/The Associated Press)