The massive missile and drone attack that killed at least six people in cities across Ukraine on Thursday morning was “retaliation” for the cross-border attack in Russia’s Bryansk region last week, its Defence Ministry has said.

The ministry said its forces had carried out a “massive retaliatory strike” on Ukrainian infrastructure.

Six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles were among dozens of weapons used in the attack, Ukraine’s air force said. The Ukrainian military is not believed to be capable of intercepting the air-launched Kinzhal missile, which Russian sources claim can fly at more than 12 times the speed of sound.

Air raid sirens wailed for hours across the country as missiles struck the capital Kyiv, the Black Sea port of Odesa and the second city of Kharkiv, local officials said.

More explosions were reported in the northern city of Chernihiv and the western Lviv region, as well as in the cities of Dnipro, Lutsk and Rivne.

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