KIEV (Reuters) – Russia has launched several waves of missile and drone strikes that have hit dozens of Ukrainian regions and killed at least four people, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday morning, a day after Moscow’s biggest airstrike in the war against its neighbor.
Two people were killed when a hotel was “destroyed” in the town of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, regional officials said. Two people died in drone attacks in the town of Zaporizhzhia, east of Kryvyi Rih.
The Kiev region’s air defense systems were activated several times during the night to repel missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital, the region’s military administration said on Telegram.
Reuters witnesses reported at least three explosions overnight in Kiev.
On Monday, Russia launched more than 200 missiles and drones, killing at least seven people and damaging energy infrastructure in an attack condemned by US President Joe Biden as “outrageous”.
Analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War said in a statement late on Monday that Moscow “probably does not have the defense industrial capacity to sustain such massive attacks on a similar scale with regularity”.