Dnipro attack
Smoke rises from a building that was heavily damaged after a Russian strike hit the city center of Dnipro, Ukraine, on December 29, 2023.
  • Russia launched waves of attacks on Ukrainian cities on Thursday. 
  • Ukraine's air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously."
  • The volume of attacks proved a challenge for Ukraine's air defenses. 

Russia launched its biggest-ever wave of attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight using hundreds of missiles and drones.

Ukrainian officials said that the attacks struck Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the north, the cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv in the east, Lviv in the west, and Odesa in the south from late Thursday into early Friday.