By Euronews
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At least five people have been killed after Russia launched a “combined” missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight into Sunday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad were targeted with cruise missiles, “shahed” drones and Kinzhal missiles.
Moscow “once again” targeted civilian infrastructure, Zelenskyy said, with more than 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones. He called for “more protection and faster implementation of all defence agreements.”
An entire family of four, including a teenage girl, were killed in the western region of Lviv, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, posting pictures of destroyed buildings on fire in the aftermath of the attack.
The strike damaged several residential buildings and the Sparrow Capital industrial park, which caught fire.
In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, the aerial assault killed a civilian woman and wounded nine other people including a 16-year-old girl, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
Fedorov said the strike, which used drones and guided aerial bombs, destroyed residential buildings and left around 3,000 households in Zaporizhzhia and surrounding areas without power.
Sunday’s attack follows a large strike on a Ukrainian railway station in Shostka on Saturday.
One was killed and dozens more injured in the attack that Zelenskyy called “savage.”
The head of Ukraine’s national rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, Oleksandr Pertsovsky, called the strike “a vile attack aimed at stopping communication with our front-line communities.”
“This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics — the so-called ‘double tap,’ when the second strike hits rescuers and people who are evacuating,” Sybiha said in a post on Telegram.
Moscow has stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway network, hitting it almost every day over the past two months.
As in previous years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has also stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s power grid in the months leading up to winter.