LONDON — Russia on Monday launched a deadly large-scale attack across Ukraine, sending drones and cruise and ballistic missiles toward at least 15 regions, Ukrainian officials said.
“What is happening now in Kyiv is unbelievable horror. Pray for us,” Kira Rudick, a member of Ukrainian Parliament, said on social media. She later added, “What happened today? Nightmare.”
Some residents in Kyiv, the capital, took shelter in the city’s subways as Russia launched its “massive” attack across the country, Olga Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister, said on social media. She included local news video that appeared to show throngs of people standing along a train platform.
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024, shows rescuers carrying an injured person on a stretcher following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Dnipro region of Ukraine.
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Kyiv was among the 15 regions throughout Ukraine that had been struck in the early morning attack, Rudick said.
The strikes followed Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations on Saturday. Russia had on Saturday struck several pieces of Ukrainian infrastructure, knocking out power for many. The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv was helping restore power on Sunday after Russia’s “barbaric attacks,” according to the U.S. State Department’s official Russian social media accounts.
Russia in its Monday attack also targeted energy infrastructure in an attempt to “terrorize all of Ukraine” and to “deprive Ukrainians of electricity,” the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the country’s parliament, said. Engineers were working midmorning to restore power to many, the parliament said.
“The desire to destroy our energy will cost the Russians dearly — their infrastructure,” Andrii Yermak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in Ukrainian on messaging app Telegram on Monday.
At least one person was killed Monday in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Ukrainian Emergency Service said in a statement.
A strike there destroyed two houses and damaged four others, the service said. A fire was burning as emergency officials arrived, the service said.
“A man born in 1955 died as a result of the attack,” the service said. “Another man who was under the rubble was also rescued. He was found by rescuers and handed over to medics.”
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working at the site of a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Dnipro region of Ukraine.
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A residential apartment building was also struck in Lutsk at about 8:30 a.m., the service said.
At least three people were injured in the Mykolaiv region, Vitaly Kim, head of the regional military administration, said on the messaging app Telegram.
“Everything is under control,” Kim said. “Charge your devices just in case.”
ABC News’ Joe Simonetti contributed to this report.
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