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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo in Kyiv and Pjotr Sauer

Ukraine hit with largest wave of Russian missiles since mid-August

Police officers work at the site of a missile strike on a hotel building in Cherkasy, central Ukraine.
Police officers work at the site of a missile strike on a hotel building in Cherkasy, central Ukraine. Photograph: Igor Tkachenko/EPA

Ukrainian cities from east to west were hit overnight in Russia’s largest wave of missile attacks in more than a month, as at least two were killed and dozens wounded on United Nations World Peace Day.

The strikes, the biggest since 15 August, came a day after reports of sabotage at a Russian military airfield in Chkalovsk, near Moscow, and in the week the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, presented a Ukrainian “peace formula” to the UN general assembly summit in New York.

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