Russia launched a massive wave of air strikes on Ukraine on March 9, causing casualties and multiple power cuts across the country and halting the power supply of the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya as the battle for Bakhmut in the east raged on.
Russia Launches Deadly Air Strikes On Ukrainian Cities
- By RFE/RL
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Smoke rises over the giant Motherland monument after a Russian missile strike targeted Kyiv on March 9.
The strikes killed at least six people and resulted in multiple power cuts across the country, halting the power supply of the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya.
The strikes killed at least six people and resulted in multiple power cuts across the country, halting the power supply of the nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhya.
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Police inspect the site where fragments from a Russian rocket landed after it was shot down near a multistory residential building in Kyiv.
Russia said it had carried out the "massive retaliatory strike" on Ukrainian infrastructure after what it called a terrorist attack in Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, last week.
Russia said it had carried out the "massive retaliatory strike" on Ukrainian infrastructure after what it called a terrorist attack in Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, last week.
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Residents stand outside of a cordoned-off area where a Russian missile struck in Kyiv.
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Emergency workers extinguish fires from the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv.
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Smoke billows from a Russian missile strike in Kyiv. At least two people were injured in a strike on Kyiv's Sviatoshyn district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
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As air-raid sirens sounded across the capital, civilians sought shelter in Kyiv's subway stations.
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The bodies of people killed by a Russian strike are seen at a public-transport stop in Kherson.
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The bodies of people killed by a Russian strike are seen at a public-transport stop in Kherson.
The bodies of people killed by a Russian strike are seen at a public-transport stop in Kherson.
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Rescue workers look for survivors amid the rubble of a residential building that was hit by a Russian missile strike in the western city of Lviv. At least four people were reported killed.
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A dog whose owners were killed in the March 9 missile attack lies among the rubble of a house in the village in the Zolochevskiy district in the western Lviv region.
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Villagers clear the rubble from a destroyed home in the village in Zolochevskiy.
