Dozens of Russian missiles fired at Ukraine, officials say
Russian forces early on Thursday launched a missile strike on Ukraine.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, first posted on Twitter that more than 100 rockets were fired in several waves. Some rockets were reportedly fired from carriers in the sea, while others were reportedly fired by at least a dozen fighter aircraft.
Another presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, claimed on Twitter that more than 120 missiles had been launched "by the 'evil Russian world' to destroy critical infrastructure & kill civilians en masse."
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army later said 69 missiles were launched, fewer than the 100 missiles that officials had estimated earlier in the morning.
At least one loud explosion was heard in Kyiv, where air raid sirens were ringing for several hours on Thursday morning.
-ABC News' Edward Szekeres, Britt Clennett and Joe Simonetti
Editor's note: This post has been updated to reflect an update issued by the Ukrainian Army on the number of missiles launched.