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Putin Orders Intensified Pressure After 11-Hour Missile and Drone Assault on Kyiv

Russia launches an 11-hour drone and missile assault on Kyiv, firing 74 missiles and 496 drones that kill at least 17 civilians and injure more than 90 while wrecking about 30 sites across the city.The Russian Defense Ministry says the strikes target military and quasi-military facilities and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, citing Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, vows intensified pressure on Ukraine as hardliners press for escalation and the EU readies new sanctions.Ukraine says it struck a major oil refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region and damaged a railway bridge used for Russian logistics in occupied Luhansk, and Kyiv appeals for advanced air defense systems amid a diplomatic stalemate.
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