Russian missile and drone barrage kills at least 16 in Ukraine’s Kyiv region

Russia has pounded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a night-time aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said.Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of US-made Patriot air defence interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded for countries to send more Patriot interceptors but international stockpiles are low amid the Iran war and Ukraine’s more than four-year fight against Russia’s all-out invasion.A man enters a heavily-damaged residential building after an overnight Russian attack in Kyiv (Francisco Seco/AP Photo/Fran