As air raid alerts wailed in Kyiv around 6am, the Ukrainian air force said it was tracking 96 aerial targets entering the country’s airspace.
Russia has ramped up deep strikes into Ukraine with a volley of missiles aimed at Kyiv and a north-eastern border area, ending a more than two-month pause in such attacks on the capital, the Ukrainian air force said.
That included missiles, ending an unusual 73-day pause in Russia’s use of the weapons to strike the capital. The city has in that period come under numerous drone attacks. Scores of drones were also used in the attack on Wednesday, the air force said.Across Ukraine, the past few months have also seen a longer than usual break from large-scale missile attacks. The last major missile attack came on September 3, with a strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Poltava that killed more than 50 people.
Meanwhile, Russia said a senior Russian naval officer was killed in the city of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea after a bomb planted under his car exploded.Russia’s Investigative Committee, which is responsible for investigating serious crimes, said it was considering the death as an act of terrorism.
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