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The Ukrainian president said the strike was \u2018deliberately calculated\u2019 to cause \u2018maximum harm to people\u2019
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Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday condemned a \u201cwicked\u201d Russian missile and drone attack<\/a> on Kyiv that left four people dead in the Ukrainian capital.
At least 27 people were injured as Russia pelted Ukraine<\/a> with at least 430 drones and 18 missiles overnight, according to Ukrainian officials.
The Ukrainian president said the attack was \u201cdeliberately calculated<\/a>\u201d to cause \u201cmaximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure<\/a>\u201d. Strikes also hit Kharkiv and Odesa regions, he said.
Among the injured were a pregnant woman and a 55-year-old man in Bila Tserkva, who suffered thermal burns and was hospitalised in critical condition, according to regional head Mykola Kalashnyk.
The attack on the capital was ongoing, officials said, urging residents to remain in shelter until an air raid alert could be lifted. City authorities also warned of power and water outages.
The attack came as European Union officials warned this week that Ukraine<\/a> must continue to crack down on corruption following a major graft scandal <\/a>that has put top nuclear energy officials under scrutiny.
France will host Ukraine\u2019s president in Paris on November 17 in a show of support for Kyiv, president Emmanuel Macron\u2019s office said on Friday.
Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s visit will be his ninth trip to France since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022.
The latest summit will look to build on the momentum in terms of helping Ukraine following a meeting of Ukraine’s Coalition of the Willing allies last month, added Macron’s Elysee office.
Russian troops have taken control of two more settlements in eastern Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry has claimed.
The two villages are Rih in the Donetsk region and Orestopil in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Independent<\/em> could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that his troops used “Long Neptune” cruise missiles on targets in Russia overnight.
“Overnight our warriors successfully used ‘Long Neptunes’ against designated targets on Russian territory – and this is our entirely just response to Russia’s ongoing terror,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.
“Ukrainian missiles are delivering increasingly significant and precise results virtually every month.”
The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom is holding talks with the head of the UN\u2019s nuclear watchdog, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported on Friday.
Alexei Likhachev was said to be meeting Rafael Grossi in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
The two officials have in the past discussed nuclear safety issues, including those around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine.
A Russian UAV operator was detained on the Lithuanian border while trying to enter the European Union posing as a Ukrainian refugee, Ukrainian intelligence reported on Thursday.
The suspect, originally from Sumy in Ukraine, had reportedly moved to Crimea after the annexation and obtained a Russian passport. Joining the Russian army, he was given a role working with unmanned systems on the southern front, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
The SBU said that the soldier \u201cassessed the risks\u201d and chose to flee from his station towards the EU. He planned to use his Ukrainian passport to obtain refugee status, they said.
\u201cLithuanian colleagues exposed the militant on the border of the Baltic state and handed him over to the Ukrainian side for justice,\u201d they report.
At least three people were killed in Russia\u2019s overnight attacks on Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said Russia carried out \u201cmassive\u201d strikes on the Ukrainian capital, which left at least 26 people injured.
Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the city\u2019s military administration, said residential buildings came under fire in \u201cpractically every district\u201d.
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia had launched around 430 drones and 18 missiles in overnight attacks.
“This was a deliberately calculated attack aimed at causing maximum harm to people and civilian infrastructure,” the Ukrainian president wrote on X.
“Ukraine is responding to these strikes with long-range strength, and the world must stop these attacks on life with sanctions.”
Russian air defence forces shot down or intercepted 216 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry said.
The ministry said it had brought down 66 drones over Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, where officials earlier said an oil depot and port had been targeted.
The governor of Russia’s Saratov region said that drone attacks had damaged civilian infrastructure, while the head of the Volgograd region said that air defences had repelled an overnight drone attack on energy infrastructure.
Russia’s FSB security service said that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning similar attacks in other parts of the country.
The FSB said in a statement that the Ukrainian plot had aimed to kill the official when they visited their relatives’ graves at a Moscow cemetery.
Reuters could not independently verify the FSB’s assertion, but Ukraine has targeted Russian military and other officials inside Russia since Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
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