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Ukraine struck respective targets heavy wrong Russia connected Tuesday successful what it says is its "most massive" onslaught of the warfare truthful far.
Ammunition deports and chemic plants were deed crossed respective regions, immoderate of which were hundreds of kilometres from the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Sources successful Ukraine's SBU quality bureau told the BBC the overnight onslaught was a "painful blow" to Russia's quality to wage war.
Russia said it had changeable down US-supplied Atacms missiles arsenic good arsenic UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and vowed to respond to the attack.
At slightest 9 airports successful cardinal and occidental Russia temporarily halted traffic, portion the strikes prompted schools successful the southwestern Saratov portion to close.
Strikes successful the borderline portion of Bryansk caused explosions astatine a refinery, ammunition depots and a chemic works said to nutrient gunpowder and explosives, a Ukrainian information root told the BBC.
But Kyiv besides struck acold deeper into the country, with the General Staff claiming to person deed targets up to 1,100km (700 miles) from the border.
In the occidental portion of Saratov, officials reported a "massive" drone attack.
Two concern plants successful the cities of Engels and Saratov were damaged, determination politician Roman V. Busargin wrote connected Telegram.
Students were taught online connected Tuesday aft section schools were closed.
Last week, Kyiv said it had struck an lipid retention installation successful Engels - prompting a days-long effort to tackle the blaze and Busgarin to state a authorities of emergency.
Officials successful the occidental portion of Tula besides reported an overnight attack, wherever determination politician Dmitry V. Milyaev Russian said aerial defences had changeable down 16 drones.
There were nary casualties, helium said, though falling debris had damaged immoderate cars and buildings.
Elsewhere, a state retention tract adjacent Kazan was struck successful a drone onslaught successful the southwestern portion of Tatarstan, section officials said, without reporting immoderate casualties.
Moscow besides launched dozens of drones crossed Ukraine overnight, with aggregate aerial raid alerts successful and astir Kyiv.
Ukraine's Air Force said it had changeable down astir 60 of the 80 drones progressive successful the attack, which caused nary casualties.
Ukraine is trying to propulsion back, nevertheless it can, against Russian subject advances connected the ground, with a week to spell until President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Trump has said helium is preparing to conscionable Vladimir Putin upon his instrumentality to the White House.
He has expressed scepticism astir US subject and fiscal enactment for Kyiv, and promised to prioritise negotiating an extremity to the war.
He has not made wide however helium plans to bash that.
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