At least 17 people were killed and dozens were wounded in a “massive” Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital and the surrounding region, Ukrainian authorities said.
The attack, which happened overnight Wednesday and into Thursday, also bled into Moldova and Romania. Romania said an explosive-laden naval drone believed to have been launched by Russia targeted one of its offshore natural gas projects.
In the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, strikes damaged a hospital, a school, a preschool, residential buildings and several warehouses across the city, local authorities said, as the destruction of civilian infrastructure also drew sharp international condemnation.
Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyiv’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which are needed to defend against faster-moving ballistic missiles.
Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye.
