Ukraine’s eight word warning to Putin over deadly night raid

Russia has battered Ukraine with another wave of attacks, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has described the attacks as ‘vile’, in what has been considered Russia’s biggest onslaught in weeks, and issued a chilling eight word warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mr Zelensky said on his Telegram Channel that rescue operations were underway, but four people were killed and 16 more were injured.

He said: ‘In total, the enemy used more than 90 aerial targets against the civilian population and infrastructure: 81 Shahed, as well as cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles.

‘We will definitely respond to this and all other strikes by Russia.

‘Crimes against humanity cannot be committed with impunity.’

Russia launched dozens of missiles and rockets (Picture: Reuters)

Ukraine’s air force said swarms of Russian drones fired at eastern, northern, southern, and central regions were followed by volleys of cruise and ballistic missiles.

At least four people were killed – one in the western city of Lutsk, one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, one in Zhytomyr in the country’s centre and one in the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region in the south-east, according to local officials.

Thirteen other people were wounded – one in the Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, five in Lutsk, three in the southern Mykolaiv region and four in the neighbouring Odesa region.

Blackouts and damage to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings were reported across the country, from the region of Sumy in the east, to the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions in the south, to the region of Rivne in the west.

In Sumy, a province in the east that borders Russia, local officials said 194 settlements had suffered a full power blackout, while 19 others had a partial blackout.

Four people are dead and more than a dozen are injured (Picture: Reuters)

Areas outside of Kyiv were hit days ago (Picture: Rex)

In neighbouring Poland, the military said Polish and Nato air defences were activated in the eastern part of the country as a result of the attack.

Meanwhile, in Russia, officials reported a Ukrainian drone attack overnight and on Monday morning.

Four people were injured in the central region of Saratov, where drones hit residential buildings in two cities.

One drone crashed into a residential high-rise in the city of Saratov, and another hit a residential building in the city of Engels, home to a military airfield that had been attacked before, local officials said.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said that a total of 22 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight and in the morning over eight Russian regions, including the Saratov and Yaroslavl regions in central Russia.

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