Photograph: APUkrainians were told to prepare for large-scale missile strikes after Russia launched its biggest barrage of the war on multiple cities in Ukraine, killing at least 29 people. Emergency workers at the site on Friday of a Russian air strike on Dnipro that Ukrainian officials said killed six people and injured about 28. A woman holding a dog stands near the site of a damaged residential building on Friday after a Russian air strike on Lviv in western Ukraine. Gen Wiesław Kukuła, chief of the general staff of the Polish army, said although the incident was a violation of Polish airspace it was being treated as part of Russia’s mass missile strike against Ukraine. Two people were killed in eastern Poland in November 2022 by a stray missile identified as a Ukrainian S-300 air defence interceptor.

Source: The Irish Times December 29, 2023 21:37 UTC