ODESSA, Ukraine—Russia launched another round of strikes across Ukraine on Tuesday, many of which Kyiv said it intercepted, as the death toll rose from the previous day’s barrage, one of Moscow’s broadest assaults in nearly eight months of war.
Ukraine’s air-defense systems shot down Russian missiles across the country Tuesday morning, though strikes in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region left at least one person dead, according to regional governors. Russian missiles and drones also hit Ukraine’s electric grid for a second day, knocking out power in the city of Lviv and injuring six people at a power plant in the Vinnytsia region, according to local authorities.
Monday’s missile-and-drone bombardment shattered the sense of relative normalcy that had returned to much of central and western Ukraine in recent months after Russian forces withdrew from areas around the capital, Kyiv, and shifted the focus of its firepower to eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces on Monday fired 84 missiles along with drones in a series of strikes that coincided with Ukraine’s morning rush hour, raising fears it could mark a new phase of the Kremlin’s assault centered on massive aerial bombardment. Ukraine said its air defenses intercepted roughly half of Monday’s salvos, a number that couldn’t be independently verified. The death toll from those attacks rose to 19, with 105 injured, Ukraine’s emergency services said Tuesday.
Since the start of the war, Kyiv’s ability to prevent Russia from dominating the skies above Ukraine has been crucial to its fending off Moscow’s advance. Ukraine’s aerial defense is built on a patchwork of Soviet-era air-defense batteries bolstered by systems rushed to the battlefield by the U.S. and others in the early days of the invasion.
Police inspected a crater from an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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A man examined the damage to his apartment in a residential block in Kyiv.
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