Russia resumed its brutal airstrikes on Ukraine, hitting at least 10 regions with a mix of weapons including missiles that travel faster than sound and cannot be detected by air defenses.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces launched dozens of missiles and drones across Ukraine early Thursday — including hypersonic missiles that Ukrainian air defense cannot intercept — killing at least six people and damaging critical infrastructure or residential buildings in 10 regions, including the capital.At least five of the dead were killed at home in a village in the western Lviv region, far from the front-line combat zones in the east. Two people were wounded in Kyiv.
Thursday’s airstrikes marked the first time in weeks that Russia sent such a varied range of high-powered missiles raining down on Ukraine, after a brief pause in the relentless bombing campaign against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure that started in October and continued roughly through mid-February.
Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted in 2018 that the missiles travel at 10 times the speed of sound. Last March, President Biden said the missiles were “almost impossible to stop.” In addition to the missile strikes, the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, reported on Telegram that Russian shelling had killed three people in the southern city of Kherson. The Russian invaders had occupied Kherson for months, and since retreating in November have been bombing it mercilessly from the east side of the Dnieper River.
Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued in the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut, which has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance as Ukraine has refused to surrender control to massive waves of Russian fighters, including many untrained mercenaries recruited from Russian prisons.
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