Moscow launched more than 40 missiles, and at least 30 were shot down, said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, adding about 70 strike drones were involved in the attack. It remains unclear how many were intercepted.

The scale of the assault on Wednesday was not immediately clear, but Ukraine’s energy minister called it “massive.”

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