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All of Ukraine spent much of Thursday morning under air raid alerts after Russia launched its largest air barrage in nearly two weeks. Sirens rang out in cities near the Russian border to the country’s relatively peaceful west. The scale of the damage remained unclear, but Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack.
Russian forces fired more than 69 missiles against Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny. He said that Ukraine shot down all but 15.
Responding to the attacks, Mykhailo Podolyak, a top Ukrainian official, tweeted that Russia wants « to destroy critical infrastructure and kill civilians en masse. »
Military administrators in at least six of Ukraine’s 25 regions confirmed blasts in their areas.
