Zelenskyy condemns Russia’s ‘vile and cowardly’ 12-hour bombing of Ukraine

Destruction caused by a Russian missile during an attack on Kyiv on Sunday. Photograph: Alessio Mamo/The Guardian

One of the worst bombardments of Kyiv since the start of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has killed at least four people in what Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a “vile and cowardly” attack.

Russia launched nearly 600 drones and more than 40 cruise missiles in a bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours over Saturday night and into Sunday morning. The main targets were the Ukrainian capital and the regions of Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa.