Russia has launched a massive wave of strikes targeting cities across Ukraine in response to an attack on the Kerch bridge linking Russia and Crimea.
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Barely hours after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denounced the bridge attack on Saturday as an “act of terrorism” that he blamed on Ukraine’s secret services, missiles slammed into the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, during morning rush-hour.

President Zelenskiy urged people to take shelter, saying: “Such a time and such targets were specially chosen to cause as much damage as possible. Stay in shelters today. Always follow the safety rules.”

Zelenskiy also said the wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities by Russian forces had targeted energy supplies and people, and were chosen to cause as much damage to civilians as possible.

According to Ukraine’s military, by mid-morning on Monday, 75 missiles had been launched, of which it claimed over 40 had been intercepted.
Explosions also rocked the cities of Lviv, Ternopil and Dnipro after overnight strikes on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia for the third night in a row.

In the immediate aftermath of the first wave of missiles, Ukraine’s defence ministry said it would seek revenge. “There is sacrifice amongst people and destruction,” the ministry said on its Facebook page. “The enemy will be punished for the pain and death brought upon our land! We will get our revenge!”

The last attack on Kyiv was in June, leading to a relative return to normality in the city. But unlike previous attacks that mostly hit Kyiv’s outskirts, Monday’s strikes targeted several locations in the very centre of the city.

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