Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff reported airstrikes, Russian cruise missiles and multiple rocket launchers. There have been attacks on more than two dozen towns and villages across the country.
The government in Kyiv had previously reported seven dead after an attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia on Tuesday evening. Seven other people were injured in the attacks on the cities of Orikhiv and Stepnohirsk, said the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russia fired a total of 83 rockets in a series of massive rocket attacks on Monday, 41 of which were reportedly intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. For the first time in months, rockets also fell in Kyiv and in Lviv in western Ukraine. At least 19 people died in the attacks and 105 were injured. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of retaliatory attacks after an explosion on the Crimean bridge on Saturday.
