Russia hits Ukraine with second night of missiles and drones

Russia launched waves of drone and missile strikes across Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, while accusing the United States of involvement in Kyiv's incursion into Russia.

Russia launched waves of drone and missile strikes across Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, while accusing the U.S. of involvement in Kyiv's incursion into Russia and repeating warnings it could review its nuclear doctrine in response.

In the last 24 hours, more than 90 missile and drone attacks rained down across the country, killing at least four people and injuring 16 others, the Ukrainian air force said.

It came a day after one of Russia’s biggest aerial assaults during the 30-month war, firing some 200 missiles and drones at its neighbor. President Joe Biden called that attack “outrageous.”

Following the barrage, Ukraine reiterated its call for more freedom to use long-range Western weapons to strike deeper inside Russia.

One of the reasons the U.S. and others have imposed restrictions on the use of its weapons is to avoid an escalation with the nuclear-armed Kremlin. And on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov issued Moscow's latest round of nuclear saber-rattling.

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