Russian missile barrage hits Ukraine's rail, energy assets

About 50 missiles, 300 drones launched overnight, targeting energy sector: Zelensky

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Russia fired scores of missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine on Feb 22, crashing into energy and rail infrastructure and residential buildings, just two days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

AFP journalists in Kyiv heard a series of blasts starting at around 4am (10am Singapore time), shortly after an air raid alert was issued, with the air force later widening the alert warning nationwide, citing the threat of missiles.

“Moscow continues to invest in strikes more than in diplomacy,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the attack on social media, saying that Russia launched about 50 missiles and 300 drones overnight.

“The main target of the attack was the energy sector. Ordinary residential buildings were also damaged, and there is damage to the railway,” he said.

One man was killed and a dozen more people were wounded, among them four children, in and around Kyiv, Ukraine’s national police said.

Rescuers sifted through debris of a largely destroyed two-storey house in Sofiivska Borshchagivka in the Kyiv region.