Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday, killing 23 people and wounding 130, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Moscow could launch a new assault for the second night in a row.

The strikes on cities including Kyiv and Dnipro followed Russian warnings of ¡°systematic¡± attacks on the capital after a drone attack on a dormitory in Ukraine¡¯s Russian-held region of Luhansk last month. Kyiv denies targeting the dormitory.

It ?was the third heavy assault on Kyiv in under a month, but Russia has been relentlessly attacking Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, since it invaded its smaller neighbor in 2022.