Russian barrage on Ukraine kills 9, wounds dozens

KYIV: Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight and wounded dozens, authorities said on Tuesday (Aug 11), after Kyiv warned that Moscow had received more ballistic missiles from North Korea.Russia has stepped up ballistic missile strikes on Ukrainian cities in recent weeks, with Ukraine responding with strikes deep inside Russian territory.The overnight attacks spanned Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk, regional authorities said.Russia's defence ministry said its forces "delivered a group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons, hitting military-industrial enterprises and transport-logistics centres in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia". In Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration, said Russian forces launched a "mass