Kyiv Barrage Kills 17 as Russia Hits Critical Infrastructure
A nine-hour Russian missile and drone barrage on Kyiv killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens, Ukrainian officials said, with a nine-storey block collapsed and a children’s hospital damaged. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russia had “purposefully” struck critical infrastructure, cutting hot water to parts of the capital. Ukraine hit back with nearly 800 drones aimed at the Moscow region overnight. Russia warned Britain it would “pay a price” for supplying Kyiv with long-range weapons.
It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the war, and President Zelensky’s warning that Ukraine now holds only a fraction of the air-defence interceptors it needs points to the grim arithmetic behind the rising tolls: as Western supplies thin, more missiles get through. The deliberate targeting of power, heat and water, with winter approaching, suggests a Russian strategy of making cities unliveable rather than seizing them. Ukraine’s huge drone retaliation on Moscow shows it can still reach deep into Russia, but cannot shield its own people. Moscow’s threat to Britain drags London further into the confrontation. Watch whether allies rush fresh air defences and how far the strikes on infrastructure go.