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targets launched by russia. that includes more than three dozen cruise missiles and iranian made drones. police official in kyiv says residential buildings and infrastructure in several districts were damaged but no one was killed or injured. this come as day after ukraine said had russia launched one of its largest drone attack to date. russia ramping up missile and drone strikes. targeting the ukrainian capital. reporter: overnight, there was a huge assault by russia on ukraine as you mentioned. some 67 air targets shot down according to ukrainian officials. 37 cruise missiles and 29 drones were destroyed. this latest assault was
ukraine s military says its forces shot down nearly 40 air targets, just today. and this comes after nearly 70 targets were shot down hours earlier in the capitol city. this is being called russia s largest drone attack yesterday on the capitol city. cnn s sam kiley is live in eastern ukraine for us. so the attacks seem to be on the uptick. is that what you re experiencing, what you re hearing from folks? yes. so certainly, there is an increase in the focus of the number of attacks on kyiv. the ukrainian capital. this is the 16th day or night this year that kyiv has come under sustained and concentrated attack. what s unusual in arguably an escalation this morning is the use of missiles, or what are believed to be missiles that are very sophisticated, very heavy warheaded missiles, produced by the russians against kyiv in daylight. driving people underground,
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