Russia fires new ballistic missile at Ukraine, killing at least four

Russia's Defense Ministry said it utilized a caller Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic rocket Friday successful a deadly onslaught connected Ukraine.

Four radical were killed and astatine slightest 22 were injured, according to Ukrainian authorities.

Russia said the onslaught was retaliation for what Moscow claimed was a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence past month. Both Ukraine and President Donald Trump person disputed that claim.

The onslaught occurred hours aft Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alerted the federation that Russia intended to motorboat a large-scale offensive.

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A residential gathering was damaged aft a Russian onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Jan. 9. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Zelenskyy said that Russia was aiming to instrumentality vantage of the frigid upwind successful the capital, which made roads and streets icy.

The rocket traveled astatine a velocity of much than 8,000 miles per hour, according to the Western Command of Ukraine's Air Force.

Several districts successful Kyiv were deed successful the onslaught and an exigency aesculapian assistance idiosyncratic was among those killed, according to Kyiv City Military Administration caput Tymur Tkachenko.

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A residential gathering burned aft a Russian onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Jan. 9. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine's information work said that 5 rescue workers suffered injuries portion responding to the tract of ongoing attacks.

A drone crashed onto the extortion of a multistory gathering successful the Desnyanskyi territory and the archetypal 2 floors of a residential gathering were besides damaged arsenic a effect of the attack.

Running h2o and energy were disrupted successful parts of the capital, Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

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Smoke rises implicit a residential gathering successful Kyiv aft a Russian rocket onslaught connected Jan. 9. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

The latest onslaught besides progressive different ground-and-sea-launched missiles targeting Ukraine’s captious infrastructure the occidental metropolis of Lviv, according to its mayor, Andriy Sadoviy.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.