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Rus­sia pound­ed Ukraine’s cap­i­tal with an­oth­er ma­jor mis­sile and drone at­tack overnight in­to Thurs­day, killing at least two peo­ple and caus­ing fires across Kyiv a day af­ter the heav­i­est drone at­tack so far in the more than three-year war, Ukrain­ian of­fi­cials said.

In an­oth­er tense and sleep­less night for Kyiv res­i­dents, with many of them dash­ing in the dark with chil­dren, pets and blan­kets to the pro­tec­tion of sub­way sta­tions, at least 22 peo­ple were wound­ed, ac­cord­ing to Ty­mur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv Re­gion­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The night was punc­tu­at­ed with the chill­ing whine of ap­proach­ing drones that slammed in­to res­i­den­tial ar­eas, ex­plod­ed and sent balls of or­ange flames in­to the dark dur­ing the 10-hour bar­rage. Rus­sia fired 397 Sha­hed and de­coy drones as well as cruise and bal­lis­tic mis­siles at Kyiv and five oth­er re­gions, au­thor­i­ties said.