Russia strikes Ukrainian military factories in overnight attack

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Russia launched a massive overnight strike on military factories across Ukraine, including Kyiv, where a Russian drone hit an apartment block, killing one woman and injuring five people, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The Russian Defense Ministry said it targeted a rocket factory in Kyiv, a drone assembly workshop and missile fuel factory in the wider region, and electricity substations in Zhytomyr. Ukrainian officials reported damage to energy and civilian infrastructure in the Rivne region. In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defenses downed five Ukrainian drones heading for the capital, while Russia's Defense Ministry reported a total of 71 Ukrainian drones shot down across the country overnight.


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