Ukraine said Thursday it had downed nearly an entire barrage of Russian missiles overnight, the latest in an "unprecedented" wave of aerial attacks on the capital Kyiv. The defence ministry said Russian forces had launched 30 cruise missiles from land, sea and air, targeting several regions and killing one person in the southern port of Odesa and another in the northeastern region of Kharkiv. The military said its air defence units had destroyed 29 of the cruise missiles and shot down four drones. Russian strikes on the capital Kyiv have reached an intensity not seen since a wave of attacks started last autumn. "A series of air attacks on Kyiv, unprecedented in their power, intensity and variety, is continuing," said Sergiy Popko, head of Kyiv's civil and military administration. The attack follows other recent barrages in which Ukraine claimed to have downed several of Russia's much-vaunted hypersonic Kinzhal missiles. Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, said that the most recent barrage included six Kalibr missiles and two Iskander-K missiles. The United States also confirmed that one of its Patriot air defence systems supplied to Kyiv had been...
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