Russia says it launched group strike on Ukrainian airfields overnight

MOSCOW, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Russian forces carried out a group strike targeting the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

The strike involved the use of long-range, high-precision air-launched weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and long-range strike drones, the ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian Air Force said earlier in the day that Russia launched another major attack overnight, firing a record 741 aerial weapons, including 728 combat and decoy drones, seven Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, and six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack caused damage in 10 other regions in northern, central, southern, eastern and western Ukraine. Enditem