Russia targeted the Ukrainian capital and other cities across the country with a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles before dawn on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring at least a dozen more, Ukrainian officials said.
Air-raid alarms were still sounding as emergency crews raced to search for dead and wounded — a grimly familiar routine in a nation that has been battered by relentless Russian bombardments for nearly three years.
Ukraine’s Air Force said four ballistic missiles and 39 attack drones were used in the assault, adding that two ballistic missiles were shot down in the region of Kyiv, the capital.
In Kyiv, the attack ruptured a water main near the city center, sending water cascading through the streets around the battered facade of the Lukyanivska metro station. Nearby was a charred van, with smoke still rising from it and two burned corpses inside.
As a blaze burned deep inside an industrial building across the street, some firefighters were trying to drag debris away from the front of a heavily damaged McDonald’s. Others were concentrating on the huge chunks of glass, debris and insulation covering the sidewalk near the metro station — typically a place residents seek safety during attacks.
As investigators walked up and down the street, reaching into the flowing water to look for pieces of shrapnel, local shopkeepers tried to get through a police cordon.
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