'Massive' Russian missile strike on Kyiv kills at least 12 people, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine's air force said it intercepted 186 missiles and drones. LONDON -- A "massive" Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv on Wednesday night killed at least 12 people and injured more than 40 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to social media on Thursday. "Throughout the night, our emergency services have been working at the sites of Russian strikes," Zelenskyy wrote. "The attack was massive -- the Russians prepared for a long time and combined different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones to inflict as much damage as possible on civilian infrastructure." Ukraine's air force said Russia launched an unspecified number of ballistic missiles into the country overnight as well as 46 cruise or air-to-ground missiles of various types. Russia also launched 168 drones, the air force said. "The main direction of the attack was the Kyiv region," the air force wrote in a post to Telegram. The air force did not say whether any ballistic missiles were shot down.

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