KYIV: Russia fired more than 620 drones and long-range missiles overnight killing four people, Ukraine said on Saturday, calling for fresh sanctions on Moscow to halt its wave of record barrages. "Twenty-six cruise missiles and 597 attack drones were launched, of which more than half were 'Shaheds'," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, referring to Iranian-made drones.
The Ukrainian air force said it had downed 319 drones and 25 missiles, adding that one missile and about 20 drones hit "five locations". Zelensky said the strikes had killed at least two people and wounded 20 in the southwestern Chernivtsi region, far from the front lines of the east and south.
Twelve people were wounded in Lviv, also in the west. In the east, two people died in Dnipropetrovsk and three were wounded in Kharkiv, local authorities said. The Russian defence ministry said it had targeted companies in Ukraine's military-industrial complex in Lviv, Kharkiv and Lutsk and a military aerodrome. — AFP
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