Russia targeted Ukraine overnight into Friday with three dozen missiles and drones, many of them aimed at Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said, continuing a monthlong campaign that has terrorized the capital.
All 15 missiles and 21 drones were shot down, according to Ukraine's Air Force Command.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to deliver an address in Finland on Friday on the state of Russia's war against Ukraine. Finland's recent accession to NATO is just one of several ways that Russia's invasion has been a strategic failure, he is expected to say.
As air-raid sirens blared, a woman and her 9-year-old daughter raced through Kyiv on Thursday to a clinic, where a bomb shelter promised escape from Russian missiles. But the clinic was locked, the Ukrainian authorities said. The pair were later found dead.