Many killed in massive attack on Ukraine last night

One of the attacks targeted an apartment building in Priluky, in the Chernihiv region. There, five people are reported to have been killed and around 30 injured.

"It was an ordinary high-rise building with apartments. People can still be stuck in the racial masses, the emergency services are doing everything they can," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a comment.

He writes that "the Russian army destroyed a residential building as a birthday present for Putin", whose birthday is today.

According to Zelenskyy, energy infrastructure was one of the main targets of the night's attack.

In the capital, Kyiv, the bombardment began around 03.15 local time, according to journalists on the ground. At the time, the air force had warned that Russian Tu-95 bombers were approaching. Ten to twelve explosions followed in central Kyiv and the Podil and Obolon neighborhoods.

Many Kievites took shelter in the subway. Two people are said to have been killed in the capital last night.

A second wave of explosions came at 05:15, Kyiv Independent writes.

Also in the cities of Dnipro and Krementjuk, homes and high-rise buildings are said to have been hit, with deaths and injuries as a result. In Zaporizhzhya, infrastructure for communication was met.

A total of 18 locations are said to have been met. According to the Ukrainian defense, it managed to shoot down or disrupt 5 ballistic robots, 39 out of 48 cruise missiles and 117 out of 130 attack drones.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, "military-industrial facilities" were attacked with "precision weapons". Russia claims that one of the targets was the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point, which, among other things, manufactures the cruise robot Flamingo.

Fire Point has also produced a ballistic robot that, according to Zelensky, was used in combat for the first time last week, writes Reuters.