Russia launched a series of missile attacks across Ukraine overnight, killing at least four and injuring nine, officials reported.
The strikes targeted seven Ukrainian regions across the country, including Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Lviv, the Ukrainian military said.
Three people died in strikes on Kharkiv, including a 74-year-old woman, with five injured a several still trapped underneath the rubble after 16 settlements came under attack, the regional governer Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram.
In the western city of Lviv, Russian missiles damaged apartment buildings, two schools, and a kindergarten, leaving three people injured, Mayor Andrii Sadovyi reported.
The attacks also hit an infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia, injuring six people, according to preliminary data cited by acting Mayor Anatolii Kurtiev.
Ukraine’s air defence shot down 13 out of 26 Russian missiles, including all of the strikes on the capital, the air force said.