Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory | CNN

At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a “massive” Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight and on Thursday, Ukrainian authorities said. Attacks also bled into Moldova and Romania on Thursday. Romania said an explosive-laden naval drone believed to have been launched by Russia targeted one of its offshore natural gas projects. In the Ukrainian capital, strikes damaged a hospital, a school, a preschool, residential buildings and several warehouses across the city, local authorities said, as the destruction of civilian infrastructure also drew sharp international condemnation. CNN producers in Kyiv heard several explosions and saw smoke over the city, as an air raid alert stretched on for hours. Massive fires lit up the night sky over the capital, video by Reuters news agency showed. The attacks on Kyiv continued during the day as three separate air raid alarms sounded in the capital on Thursday. Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks. But in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly exploited Kyiv’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles, which ar