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Agence France-Presse

Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens more in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, authorities said Wednesday.
Kyiv was unable to shoot down any of the missiles launched by Russia, whose intensifying attacks have prompted Kyiv to plead for more US-made Patriot interceptors.
Russia has significantly upped its attacks on the Ukrainian capital in recent months, typically firing salvoes of hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles in short blitzes that rock buildings and send booms echoing across the city.
“Ballistic interceptors are what could have saved the lives of those killed today,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, announcing 17 people had been killed.
A cloud of smoke hovered over the capital at sunrise after the attacks sparked fires in several locations in the region.
Over 40 people were wounded in the capital and its surrounding areas, local authorities said.
Explosions were heard in Kyiv after midnight, following Ukrainian air force warnings of incoming ballistic missiles.
“The night was so terrifying, so hard,” Kyiv resident Natalia Reutska said in the morning after the attack.
“We’ve gotten used to waking up thinking, ‘we were lucky today,’ and that’s very scary,” she added.
Ukraine shot down 98 of the 115 drones fired by Russia overnight, the air force said.
But it was unable to shoot down any of the missiles, preliminary statistics from the air force showed.
Kyiv can intercept the vast majority of drones, but still relies on supplies from allies to counter missiles.

Zelensky has warned that Ukraine faces critical shortages of air defences needed to counter missile attacks, particularly Russia’s increasing use of ballistic missiles.
Moscow fired a record number of missiles at Ukraine in July, an Agence France-Presse analysis of Ukrainian air force data published Saturday showed.
The Russian attacks overnight mainly targeted warehouses, Kyiv said, with some strikes on infrastructure and a railway station.
Eight people were killed in a strike on a railway station on the eastern edge of Kyiv, a local official said.
Logistics centres of the general merchandise chain Epicentr were struck, burning one hub completely to the ground and killing an employee, the company said.
Three people working at a postal sorting centre were also killed.

Moscow said it hit “transportation, logistics, and distribution centres in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region that were involved in the storage, delivering various weapons and military cargo, as well as in the production and distribution of unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Its own network of online retailer, Wildberries, has been hit around a dozen times since mid-July by Ukrainian forces.
The series of strikes killed at least eight people and have knocked out a large chunk of the company’s storage capacity.
Kyiv accuses the e-commerce giant – which employs tens of thousands of people and is sometimes referred to as “Russia’s Amazon” – of storing drone parts and helping the Russian army.


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Kyiv during a Russian barrage. Photo: Reuters

Firefighters examine a fragment of a Russian missile. Photo: AP

A Wildberries warehouse in Krasny Bor, Russia’s Leningrad region after a drone attack. Photo: Social media via Reuters

The site of a Russian missile strike in the Kyiv region. Photo: Reuters

A damaged postal warehouse in Kyiv. Photo: AP

A logistics hub of the Ukrainian online retailer, Rozetka, after it was struck. Photo: Reuters

Dead bodies in body bags at a railway station in the Kyiv region. Photo: Reuters

An image from social media footage shows an explosion on a busy beach at the holiday village of Arkhipo-Osipovka, as tourists look on. Photo: Social media via Reuters

A drone circles over a man at a market in Kherson, Ukraine, before detonating nearby, in footage released on Tuesday. Photo: Kherson Regional Military Administration via Reuters

Footage released on Tuesday shows an explosion after a man selling vegetables in Kherson, Ukraine, is chased by a remotely piloted drone. Photo: National Police of Ukraine via AFP

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Emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following Russian missile attacks in Kyiv on Saturday. Photo: AP

People look at the damage after a residential building in Kyiv is hit by a Russian missile strike on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

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The aftermath of a strike in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo: AFP

Poland’s military and emergency services investigate a crater in a field near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in Lublin province. Photo: Reuters

A Wildberries warehouse on fire in Russia’s Ryazan region on Wednesday. Photo: Social media via Reuters

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Ukrainians down dozens of drones but zero missiles, prompting urgent calls for ballistic interceptors


Ukrainians down dozens of drones but zero missiles, prompting urgent calls for ballistic interceptors.


Russian strikes kill 17 in Kyiv region as Ukraine fails to stop missiles

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Ukrainians down dozens of drones but zero missiles, prompting urgent calls for ballistic interceptors