俄罗斯在夜间对乌克兰发动了多轮袭击，发射了700多架无人机和导弹。地方官员表示，这是数月来最致命的袭击，造成至少18人死亡。官员称，南部港口城市敖德萨有9人遇难，中部城市第聂伯罗有5人遇难，首都基辅有4人遇难，其中包括一名儿童。
在俄罗斯境内，莫斯科方面称，乌克兰在南部克拉斯诺达尔地区的无人机袭击造成两人死亡，其中包括一名儿童。此前，上周末的东正教复活节期间曾进行了简短的停火，但双方都指责对方存在数百次违反行为。俄罗斯于2022年2月对乌克兰发动了全面入侵。
在基辅，当地时间周四02:30（格林威治标准时间周三23:30）预警警报将人们惊醒，随后不久便发生了第一波爆炸。目击者发布在网上的图像显示，市中心区域燃起明亮的橙色火焰并冒出滚滚黑烟。一段视频记录了一架无人机直接撞向一栋公寓楼的侧面。
基辅市长维塔利·克里琴科在Telegram上写道，死者中包括一名12岁的男孩。另有45人受伤。市长补充说，救援人员从该市波多尔区倒塌的一栋16层住宅楼废墟中救出了一对母女。在首都北部，有四名急救医务人员受伤。
在第聂伯罗，地区负责人亚历山大·甘扎表示，俄罗斯的袭击造成4人死亡，数十人受伤，随后市长鲍里斯·菲拉托夫周四表示又发现了一具尸体。在东北部城市哈尔科夫，一名官员称无人机袭击导致一名77岁妇女和一名66岁男子受伤。据当地报道，南部两座城市尼古拉耶夫和赫尔松已经断电。
9 hours agoSarah Rainsford,Eastern Europe correspondent, KyivandJaroslav LukivReutersRescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike in KyivRussia launched more than 700 drones and missiles at Ukraine in multiple waves overnight, killing at least 18 people in what local officials said was the deadliest attack in months. Officials said nine people had been killed in the southern port city of Odesa, five in the central city of Dnipro, and four - including a child - in the capital, Kyiv.In Russia, two people - including a child - were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the southern Krasnodar region, Moscow said.This comes after a brief ceasefire took place over Orthodox Easter last weekend - though both sides accused one another of hundreds of violations.Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.In Kyiv, warning sirens jolted people awake at 02:30 local time on Thursday (23:30 GMT on Wednesday), followed soon after by the first explosions. Images posted online by eyewitnesses show bright orange fires and huge plumes of black smoke in central areas of the city. In one video, a drone was filmed slamming straight into the side of an apartment block.Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram that a 12-year-old boy was among four people killed. Another 45 people were injured.The mayor added that rescuers had pulled a mother and child from the ruins of a 16-storey residential building that collapsed in the city's central Podil district.Four emergency medical workers were among those injured in the north of the capital.In Dnipro, regional head Oleksandr Ganzha said four people were killed and dozen had been injured in the Russian attack - before the city's Mayor Borys Filatov said on Thursday that another body had been found.In the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, a drone strike injured a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, an official said. Two cities in the south, Mykolaiv and Kherson, have been left without power, according to local officials.Ukraine's air force said on Thursday morning that Russia had launched 659 drones and 44 cruise and ballistic missiles in the prior 24 hours.It said that 636 drones and 31 missiles had been shot down - but there had been direct hits in 26 locations.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack, writing on X that it proved that US and European sanctions against Russia should not be weakened. "Russia is betting on war, and that is exactly how the response should be – we must protect lives with all our might and press for peace with all our might as well," he said.ReutersZelensky warned earlier this week that Ukraine was facing a critical shortage of Patriot air defence missiles, the only means it has of intercepting Russia's ballistic missiles. Global stocks of the US-made missiles are limited and many have been diverted to the Middle East since the US and Israel began attacking Iran in February.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the latest Russian atta
