Missiles rained down on several parts of Ukraine early Thursday as air raid warnings spread across the country. The Kharkiv region was struck 15 times, its governor said on Telegram, while officials in Odessa said they were experiencing a “massive” missile attack. Four people were reported dead in Lviv, the head of the regional military administration said.
Explosions were also heard in the regions of Lviv, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad, as well as the cities of Khmelnytskyi and Kherson, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s spokesperson said Thursday.
The attacks came a day after US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a panel of senators that Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing “considerable constraints,” and may see prolonging the war as his “best remaining pathway to eventually securing Russia’s strategic interests in Ukraine”. .”
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