Moscow has stepped up its campaign of long-range attacks, shifting from a winter tactic of targeting energy infrastructure with weekly strikes to much more regular attacks that often come during the night.
early on Friday, May 19, setting ablaze several buildings in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown and seriously wounding a 64-year-old woman, Kyiv said.
“Several explosions occurred in Kryvyi Rih. The enemy hit a private industrial enterprise. Several buildings caught fire at once,” the President’s office said in a statement. The Ukrainian military said it had shot down three of six cruise missiles, and 16 of 22 attack drones that were fired. The figures implied an unusually high proportion of the Russian missiles and drones attacks had not been intercepted.
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