The New York Times
Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv overnight in an attack that killed six people and sparked fires in buildings across the city, the local authorities said. It was the latest in a series of Russian aerial assaults that have often targeted the country’s power grid in an effort to plunge Ukrainians into cold and darkness as winter looms.
The attack also targeted Kharkiv in the northeast, limiting electricity and disrupting water supplies. But the main focus appeared to be Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, where air-raid sirens first wailed shortly before midnight to signal the start of the attack and sounded again at 5 a.m. to mark its end.
Between those alerts, residents heard a grimly familiar soundtrack — the buzz of attack drones over neighborhoods, the staccato of heavy machine guns trying to shoot them down and the thud of air-defense missiles trying to intercept Russian ones.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia launched 19 missiles and 430 drones, most of which were shot down. These figures could not be independently verified.
