Ukraine’s National Police said 8 people were killed in Kyiv, with 24 more injured, although the final toll for fatalities and casualties is likely to be much higher.
KYIV — Ukrainians across the country awoke Monday morning to a barrage of Russian missile and kamikaze drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in cities stretching from Kharkiv in the east to Lviv in the west. Kyiv, for the first time since the Russian invasion began in late February, took the brunt of the assault, with almost all confirmed impact targets being civilian, not military, in nature.
In both Kyiv and Lviv, the explosions shattered months of relative calm far from the frontlines, where Ukrainian forces have been. The last missile strike that hit the Ukrainian capital was a relatively minor attack in June, and the city had been slowly but unmistakably returning to something resembling normalcy. Shops, bars and restaurants have reopened, and refugees have been returning from western Ukraine and beyond.
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