Russia launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine overnight Thursday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv and hitting infrastructure in the country’s west with a ballistic missile, authorities said, in the latest onslaught targeting the country amid freezing temperatures.
The strikes come hours after Moscow repeated that European troops deployed to Ukraine as part of any future peace deal would be considered “legitimate targets,” and the seizing of a Russian-flagged oil tanker by the United States on Wednesday.
Several explosions and a ballistic missile strike on a critical infrastructure facility were reported by authorities in the western city of Lviv.
The missile was “moving at a speed of about 13,000 kilometers per hour along a ballistic trajectory,” a statement from the Air Command “West” of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. It added the type of missile would be determined after its components had been examined.
A speed of 13,000 kilometers per hour is about 10 times the speed of sound. One of the few projectiles capable of such speeds is Russia’s Oreshnik missile, which Putin has boasted travels at Mach 10. Russia first fired an Oreshnik missile at Ukraine in November 2024.
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