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Russia rains down huge missiles Ukraine

In a midnight assault by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, at least ten people have perished, including a young mother and her infant.

In the first attack against the city in nearly two months, air raid sirens went off last night throughout Kyiv.

According to Kyiv’s administration, the air force of Ukraine intercepted 11 cruise missiles, as well as two unmanned aerial vehicles.

Power lines and a road in one neighborhood were destroyed by missile and drone fragments.

In Dnipro, a young woman and her three-year-old child were killed in a separate overnight attack, according to the city’s mayor Borys Filatov.

Two cruise missiles also hit an apartment building and storage facilities in Uman, around 215 kilometres south of Kyiv.

Three people were killed and five people were wounded, authorities say.

‘My daughter’s classmate lived on the ninth floor of the destroyed apartment block. I don’t know. Praise God they’re alive,’ said Olha, a resident of the apartment block.

A view shows a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023. Press service of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
Russia targeted a residential building in Uman, in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine (Picture Reuters)
Family members and neighbours react at the site of a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
At least three people died in the missile strike, with the death toll expected to rise (Picture: Reuters)
Rescuers work at the site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
Rescuers work at the scene to try find survivors of the deadly attack (Picture: Reuters)
People stand near a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile while rescuers work, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Much of the country was targeted in overnight attacks by Russia (Picture: Reuters)

Footage from the overnight attack shows smoke pouring from residential buildings that caught fire.

Multiple casualties were reported across Uman following the onslaufht, including a 70-year-old woman who is being treated.

Ukrainian sources suggested some of the attacks involved conventional missiles launched by Russia’s Tu-95 strategic nuclear aircraft from the Caspian Sea region.

Russia immediately claimed that the hits on residential buildings were from ‘cack-handed’ Ukrainian air defences.

A rescuer works at the site of a heavily damaged residential building hit by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Uman, Cherkasy region, Ukraine April 28, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
A rescuer works at the site of a heavily damaged residential building in Uman (Picture: Reuters)

Kremenchuk and Poltava in central Ukraine were also hit, and Mykolaiv in the south.

The attacks come as Ukrainian forces are expected to soon launch an offensive with new military equipment, including tanks, from its Western allies after Russian forces made little headway in a winter offensive.

Chinese President Xi Jinping this week told Ukrainian President Zelensky that China will send a special representative to Ukraine.

China has tried to appear neutral in the war but refused to criticize Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Xi talked Wednesday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone, state media reported, in a long-awaited move after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

‘I had a long and meaningful phone call with President Xi Jinping,’ Zelensky tweeted following the chat.

‘I believe that this call, as well as the appointment of Ukraine’s ambassador to China, will give a powerful impetus to the development of our bilateral relations.’

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