Russia pummels Ukraine with ‘massive’ missile and drone strikes

Ukraine said on Sunday that Russia pounded the country with “hundreds” of drones and missiles overnight, killing at least four people in the capital alone, as neighbouring Poland scrambled jets to secure its airspace.

The attacks came after Russia warned Nato against taking sterner action in response to alleged incursions into airspace covered by the military alliance.

The barrage also followed the revelation by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv had received a US-made Patriot air defence system from Israel for use against Russian assaults.

“Russia launched another massive air attack on Ukrainian cities while people were sleeping,” Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said on social media.

“Again, hundreds of drones and missiles, destroying residential buildings and causing civilian casualties,” he said.

He posted footage of flames bursting from the windows of a multi-storey residential block, with Sybiga blaming the blaze on the attack.