Missiles rained down on a number of components of Ukraine early Thursday as air raid warnings unfold throughout the nation. The Kharkiv area was struck 15 occasions, its governor mentioned on Telegram, whereas officers in Odessa mentioned that they have been experiencing a “large” missile assault. 4 folks have been reported useless in Lviv, the top of the regional army administration mentioned.
Explosions additionally have been heard within the areas of Lviv, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad, in addition to the cities of Khmelnytskyi and Kherson, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s spokesperson mentioned Thursday.
The assaults got here a day after U.S. Director of Nationwide Intelligence Avril Haines informed a panel of senators that Russian President Vladimir Putin is going through “appreciable constraints,” and might even see prolonging the warfare as his “finest remaining pathway to ultimately securing Russia’s strategic pursuits in Ukraine.”
Right here’s the most recent on the warfare and its ripple results throughout the globe.
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