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Julian Hayda

Russia launches a new wave of missiles into Ukraine

People rest in the subway station being used as a bomb shelter during a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

KYIV, Ukraine — All of Ukraine spent much of Thursday morning under air raid alerts after Russia launched its largest air barrage in nearly two weeks. Sirens rang out in cities near the Russian border to the country's relatively peaceful west. The scale of the damage remained unclear, but Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack,

Russian forces fired 69 missiles against Ukraine, according to Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny. He said that Ukraine shot down all but 15.

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