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... Russia pounded Ukrainian energy infrastructure and other civilian targets with around 120 missiles and 90 drones on Sunday morning, forcing Kyiv to implement precautionary power cuts and even prompting neighboring Poland to scramble its air force.
In what he called "one of the largest air attacks" of the war so far, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia had launched "drones and missiles against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians [and] critical infrastructure" across the country, including in some usually quieter western regions.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles, some launched from strategic bombers, fired at targets nationwide, following on from waves of combat drones. ...
In total, the overnight Russian strikes left at least eight people dead and wounded around 20 more, according to Ukrainian officials.
Among the initial casualties were two women killed in the southern city of Mykolaiv, where six other people, including two children, were also injured, according to local military governor Vitalii Kim.
Kim said several homes, a tower block, a shopping mall and a row of parked cars had also been damaged, as well as unspecified infrastructure.
The death toll also included two people who were killed in the Odesa region, where the attack damaged energy infrastructure and disrupted power and water supplies, according to governor Vitalii Kim Oleh Kiper.
Two residential buildings reportedly caught fire in the capital, Kyiv, while explosions were also reported in Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and Zelenskyy's hometown Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine. Social media footage showed Ukrainian air defenses in action in the Black Sea port of Odesa. ...