Russia launches nearly 100 drones at Ukraine
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Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.
Ukraine has hit a manufacturing plant in Russia that manufactures control systems for missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday.
Russia launched nearly 1,000 drones and missiles at Ukraine, starting overnight and continuing for several hours Tuesday in a large-scale daylight attack -- in a barrage that saw the largest number of drones and missiles fired in a 24-hour period since the start of the war more than four year ago.
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Russia launched nearly 400 drones and missiles at Ukraine, prompting Poland and Romania to scramble NATO fighter jets as strikes neared their airspace.
"The plant produced electronics and components for Russian missiles. The very missiles that strike our cities, our villages and civilians," he said. British Storm Shadow missiles were used to hit Kremniy El plant in the border region of Bryansk, Ukraine's military said.
Russia's anticipated annual spring offensive appears to have started, with a major drone assault on civilian areas coinciding with multiple attempts to break through frontline Ukrainian defences.