Officials said more than two dozen missiles were fired in the strikes that were far from the front lines in the east and south.
Russian forces fired more than two dozen missiles across Ukraine early Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said, in assaults that hit two cities near the country’s western edge far from the front lines and killed at least three people.
Ukraine’s Air Force said that 28 cruise missiles, 16 of which were intercepted, had been fired around 4 a.m., setting off air alerts across the country. At an industrial facility in the city of Lutsk in the northwest, about 55 miles from the border with Poland, at least three people were killed and several more were hospitalized, according to the mayor, Ihor Polishchuk.
