Ukrainian air defence fires at Russian drones during mass drone and missile strikes on Ukraine on Wednesday.

Russia launched a sweeping overnight air attack on Ukraine , injuring at least four railway workers and prompting Poland to scramble defence aircraft, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said on Wednesday.

The attacks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a military parade in Beijing to mark the end of the Second World War, at which Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that the world faces a choice between peace and war.

Air raid alerts sounded for hours across Ukraine, with explosions heard in nine of its 24 regions, from Kyiv to Lviv and Volyn in the west, Ukrainian officials and media said.

Ukraine’s western neighbour and NATO member Poland activated its own an

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