Russia rains missiles on Ukraine in one of the biggest attacks since the war

Russia rained down Ukraine's power grid with missiles on Friday, killing at least two people, damaging nine power facilities and forcing Kyiv authorities to cut emergency power across the country amid freezing cold.

Many took refuge in shelters during the morning rush hour to shelter from Russia's latest massive assault on critical infrastructure since October, which a Kyiv official described as one of the largest missile strikes since the war began in February.

And the mayor of Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, spoke of massive damage that threatens to deprive many of heating in very cold weather, while the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the center of the country said that severe damage occurred.

Valeriy Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that his country shot down 60 of the 76 missiles that Russia fired at the infrastructure.

Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat said that Moscow deliberately tried to distract air defenses by flying warplanes near Ukraine.

Authorities say two people were killed in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, while a third died in a fire in the Kherson region in the south, after a residential building was hit by shelling before the missile strike.

A senior official said the attack in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, wounded at least eight people, including three young children.

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