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Major Russian missile and drone barrage hits Kyiv overnight

newsMay 24, 2026312,085

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 90 missiles and 600 drones in an attack on Kyiv that lasted several hours, injuring 86 people and damaging dozens of locations. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the strike site in Lukyanivka, thanked rescuers and condemned the attackers using profanity-laced language. Educational and cultural sites were hit, including damage to the American University Kyiv campus, marking Kyiv's largest number of damaged locations since the full-scale invasion began. The scale of the barrage demonstrates Russia's growing use of mass missile and drone strikes against urban civilian infrastructure, further straining Ukraine's air defenses and emergency services.

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