Six dead as Russian missile barrage hits Ukrainian cities

A villager passes by debris of private houses ruined in Russia’s night rocket attack in a village, in Zolochevsky district in the Lviv region (Mykola Tys/AP)

A barrage of more than 80 Russian missiles and a smaller number of exploding drones hit residential buildings and critical infrastructure across Ukraine on Thursday, killing six people and leaving hundreds of thousands without heat or electricity.

The largest such attack in three weeks also put Europe’s largest nuclear plant at risk by knocking it off the power grid for nearly half of the day before it was reconnected.