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1. Russia struck Ukraine with the largest aerial bombardment of the 3½-year war, hitting a government building in the heart of the capital for the first time. Russia fired 13 missiles and launched more than 800 attack drones, according to Ukraine’s air force, a record for the number of drones it has directed at Ukraine in a single night. Air defenses intercepted four of the missiles and nearly 500 drones. The attack, which targeted cities and towns across the country, killed a young woman and her two-month-old child in the capital, according to Kyiv’s mayor. It also struck Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers, a government building located in an area of the capital that is one of the most protected by air defenses. Photos posted by Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko show a damaged roof and the top two floors of the hulking half-crescent building located not far from presidential offices. (Source: wsj.com)
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