Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks on Russia since war began

Ukraine has launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.

Meanwhile, a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media on Sunday.

He also said one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Around 600 drones were detected heading towards the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone struck a private home in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.

Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market in Kyiv. / Credit: AP

He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a fire at a warehouse belonging to Russian retail giant Wildberries.

Images shared by Russian media outlets from the town of Podolsk showed columns of black smoke rising from the site.

Five people were also killed in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, where three towns came under attack, local Governor Yury Slyusar said.

Two people were killed in Russia’s attack against Ukraine. / Credit: AP

This comes as a Russian attack on Kyiv sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital and injured six people.

“Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said.

“Since this morning, air raid alerts have continued in many regions – the Russians launched another wave of drones.”