Russia has launched a second consecutive day of missile and drone attacks on several regions of Ukraine, killing at least five people.
Two people were killed when a missile destroyed a hotel in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, regional authorities said Tuesday. Three people were killed in drone strikes in the southeastern city of Zaporizhia.
On Monday, Russia bombed Ukraine's energy infrastructure with more than 200 missiles and drones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that kyiv would retaliate and called on allies to consider joint air defense operations and provide long-range weapons capabilities.
Ukraine's air force said it shot down five of 10 Russian missiles and 60 of 81 drones in Tuesday's strikes. It said it lost track of 10 other drones that likely fell somewhere on its territory. One drone crossed into Belarusian territory; 10 others were still flying in Ukrainian airspace on Tuesday morning, it said.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces carried out a high-precision weapons strike on Ukraine overnight, the Interfax news agency reported. Moscow has denied targeting civilians since it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, though thousands have been killed.
In the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, the military administration reported that air defences shot down all targets heading towards the city. There were no casualties and emergency services extinguished two small fires caused by debris, according to local authorities.
Two civilians may still be under the rubble of the hotel in Kryvyi Rih and five were injured in the attack, Serhiy Lisak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Kryvyi Rih is located, said on Telegram.
Three people were wounded in the Zaporizhia region and four others were injured in a missile attack in the northeastern Kharkiv region overnight, local authorities said.
