Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘vile and brutal’ 12-hour bombardment of Ukraine

Moscow targets Kyiv and other regions with about 500 drones and 40 missiles, killing at least four people

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Kyiv has experienced one of its worst bombardments since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with at least four people killed in what Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a “vile and brutal” attack.

Russia launched about 500 drones and more than 40 missiles, Ukraine’s president said, in a bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours over Saturday night and into Sunday morning. The main targets were the Ukrainian capital and the Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa regions.