Russia launched a barrage of drones and ballistic missiles across broad swaths of Ukraine early Friday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others, days after Kyiv launched a daring raid on Moscow’s fleet of strategic bombers.

Russia launched a massive aerial assault across six regions of Ukraine, killing at least four civilians and injuring several others in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said Friday.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had carried out a massive and successful strike on military and military-related targets in Ukraine overnight in response to what it called Ukrainian "terrorist acts" against Russia.

At least three were killed and 49 injured in missile and drone strikes that focused on Kyiv, days after a daring covert attack on Moscow’s bomber fleet.

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MOSCOW, June 4 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Pope Leo for offering to help settle the Ukraine conflict and told him Kyiv is intent on "escalating" the war, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday openly questioned the point of peace talks with Ukraine after accusing Kyiv's senior leadership of ordering deadly terrorist attacks on bridges in Russia that killed seven and injured 115 more.

Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian bombers was a show of “skill and audacity” comparable to the US’s assassination of Osama Bin Laden, a US senator said.Richard Blumenthal said Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb,