Massive Russian strikes kill 18 across Ukraine

At least eighteen people have been after a wave of missile strikes on Ukrainian cites fired by Russia on Friday.

Ukraine’s national police force have confirmed that 132 people have also been injured in the attacks.

The Russian airstrikes hit residential buildings in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Dnipro, among others.

Schools, a maternity hospital, shopping arcades and blocks of flats were among the buildings hit in the barrage, said Ukrainian officials.

“Today Russia hit us with almost everything it has in its arsenal,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukraine's military estimated that Russia had fired 158 missiles and drones on Ukraine and 114 of them had been destroyed.

Source: Agencies