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KYIV, Ukraine \u2014 Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 12 people in an attack that exposed widening gaps in Ukraine\u2019s air defenses, authorities said.<\/p>\n

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All of the ballistic missiles launched by Russia struck their targets, underscoring Kyiv\u2019s need for more Patriot interceptor missiles – a point Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will likely reiterate at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this week. The attack came hours after Zelenskyy warned that a large-scale attack was imminent.<\/p>\n

A further 60 people were wounded, according to Zelenskyy, as emergency workers combed through rubble looking for survivors at residential high-rises in two locations that suffered direct hits.<\/p>\n

Days earlier, on Thursday, a Russian strike killed 31 people in Kyiv, the deadliest for the capital this year. Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said the bombardment was retaliation for Ukraine\u2019s recent long-range strikes, which have caused severe fuel shortages and pressured President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

More than four years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine\u2019s advances in drone technology have given it an edge in recent months, analysts and Western officials say. Strikes on supply routes behind the front line have stripped the Russian army of momentum on the battlefield, they say, slowing its advance and driving up the cost.<\/p>\n

But Russia is now exploiting a different kind of momentum: vulnerabilities in Ukraine\u2019s air defenses, which remain heavily reliant on the U.S. Patriot systems to intercept ballistic missiles it can rarely shoot down any other way. The war in the Middle East has strained the global supply of Patriot interceptors, already produced in limited numbers – a shortage now most of all being felt in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Gaps in Ukraine\u2019s air defense<\/h3>\n

Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russia fired 351 drones and 68 missiles overnight, targeting mainly Kyiv, and all 29 ballistic missiles struck their targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo intercept ballistics, we need the means for interception,\u201d air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat said on national television. \u201cRussians are certainly using the fact that there is a serious deficit of interceptor missiles now, in Ukraine and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, Zelenskyy said on X that Ukrainian forces had performed well against drones and cruise missiles but not against Russian ballistic missiles – a shortfall he blamed on insufficient interceptor supplies. He urged U.S. and European partners to leave the summit with strong decisions to bolster Ukraine\u2019s air defense and protect civilian lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as Patriot missiles remain in our allies\u2019 stockpiles, Russia is only encouraged to keep \u2018vanquishing\u2019 residential buildings. The United States and Europe have enough strength to stop this terror,\u201d he said in a statement following the attack.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said the attack targeted weapons factories in Kyiv, including sites it said produce drones, sea drones, armored vehicles and missiles, as well as facilities repairing air defense systems and fuel and energy infrastructure in the city and surrounding region. The claims could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s aerial attacks on Ukraine have repeatedly hit civilian areas. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed in the war, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese are residential buildings. Places where people slept and lived their ordinary lives,\u201d said Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv\u2019s Military Administration, in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n

A residential building in the Podilskyi district partially collapsed, he said. In the Darnytsia district, several multistory buildings were damaged and people were believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n

Witnesses recount harrowing escape<\/h3>\n

Khrystyna Piatetska, 20, a resident of Kyiv\u2019s Darnytskyi district, said she began screaming after the first strike, which was followed by a second blast that blew out the windows in her apartment building.<\/p>\n

The lights went out, the smell of burning filled the air and the stairwell was thick with smoke, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were leaving the building, bodies were lying there,\u201d Piatetska said. \u201cWhen we got downstairs, cars started exploding, and we came out from under the rubble straight into the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

Halina Ivanivna, 61, said she woke to the sound of the first strike at around 2 a.m. Moments later, her apartment building began to collapse around her. \u201cEverything was falling down,\u201d she said. Water poured through the building as smoke filled the air while emergency crews rushed to evacuate residents.<\/p>\n

About five minutes after the initial impact, a second strike hit, she said.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian attacks in Russia and occupied Crimea<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, an energy provider in Russia-occupied Crimea reported a blackout across the peninsula due to \u201cexternal impact.\u201d The Moscow-appointed head of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said Ukrainian attacks cut power supplies to the city early Monday, but it was later restored using backup equipment.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Yaroslavl region Gov. Mikhail Yavrayev said two people were wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on the city of the same name. He said over 70 Ukrainian drones were downed. Yavrayev didn\u2019t say if any facilities were damaged, but Astra online news outlet said the attack targeted an oil refinery, causing a fire.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 519 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n

___ Associated Press writers Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Susie Blann in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/p>\n

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