RUSSIA LAUNCHES MASSIVE DRONE AND MISSILE BARRAGE ON UKRAINE, KILLING AT LEAST 18 CIVILIANS AND STRIKING KYIV AND MULTIPLE CITIES. (PHOTO).
Russia launches massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine, killing at least 18 civilians and striking Kyiv and multiple cities Russia carried out a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine, launching hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded more than 100 others across multiple cities, officials said Tuesday. The strikes hit Kyiv, Dnipro and other regions, with emergency crews working through destroyed residential buildings where some victims were trapped under rubble. In Dnipro, rescuers recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old child and a mother and her 8-year-old son, while officials reported 12 deaths in the city and six in Kyiv. The bombardment stretched from night into daylight, with explosions reported across wide areas of the country. Kyiv residents had been on alert for days after warnings of a major aerial attack, including advisories for foreign diplomats to leave the capital. Despite those warnings, most remained in pl...
According to an international broadcasting network,many people in Crimea have been holding pro-Russian rallies before sundays referendum.Russia has vetoed a draft UN resolution criticising sunday's secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region.The only security council member to vote against the measure.China regarded as a Russian ally on the issue,abstained from the vote.Western powers criticised Russian's veto over the referendum,which will ask Crimeans if they want to rejoin Russia.Kiev has accused Russian forces of seizing a village just north of Crimea and demanded they withdraw.Ukraine's foreign ministry said 80 military personnel backed by four helicopter gunships and threee armoured vehicle had taken the village of Strikove.An unnamed Russian official quoted by Pravda Ukraine said they had taken action to protect a gas distribution station from terrorist attacks.Russia intervened in the Crimean peninsula after the fall of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February.Mr Yanukovych had sparked months of unrest across Ukraine by pulling out of a deal on closer ties with Russian .The Crimean region was part of Russia untill 1954 and most of it's residents are athnic Russian,many of whom would prefer to be governed by Moscow rather than Kiev.Russia's black sea fleet is also still housed in Crimea but Russia has signed agreements promising to uphold Ukraine's territorial intergrity.Crimea's regional parliament instigated the secession referendum after MPs voted overwhelmingly to support rejoining Russia.The national parliament in Kiev ruled the referendum unconstitional,and earlier on Saturday voted to disband the regional assembly.At the United Nations,13 members of the security council backed a resolution that called for all nations to respect Ukraines territorial intergrity and condemned the referendum as illegal. 
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