The barrage appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in Ukraine’s campaign to damage Russia’s war machine on its home territory.

Ukrainian air defence and mobile drone hunter groups shot down 58 out of 80 drones launched by Russia in overnight attacks on Tuesday, the air force said in a statement.

Ukraine struck Russian regions with a major drone and missile attack overnight, damaging at least two factories and forcing schools to close in a major southern Russian city, according to Russian officials and media.

At least one person was killed and 17 injured in Russian bombardment of Ukrainian provinces countrywide overnight from Sumy in the northeast to Khmelnytskyi in the southwest.

Russia’s military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date.

Initial social media posts from local authorities and numerous eyewitnesses indicate that western Ukraine was the primary target of the attack, with missiles seen flying over central and southern regions of the country and the Carpathian Mountains toward Khmelnytskyi,