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Zelenskiy says Ukraine got no warning as Russia launches major attack

Global Published 19 October 2026, 16:07 · archived 19 Oct 2026

KYIV: Ukraine received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian ballistic missile strike overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after Moscow launched one of its broadest air assaults in months, cutting power to more than half a million households. Russia fired 16 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region and more than 200 drones across the country in attacks stretching from Kharkiv and Dnipro in the east to Odesa in the south and Volyn and Rivne in the west. More than 10 energy facilities were damaged, Zelenskiy said. The strikes killed a woman in Kyiv and two more...

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