<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Russia fired scores of missiles and drones at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv today, killing at least five civilians and wounding dozens.</span> The third successive day of air strikes on Ukraine followed a warning by President Vladimir Putin yesterday that a Ukrainian air attack on the Russian city of Belgorod would not go unpunished.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">National energy company Ukrenergo said thousands of people were without electricity in Kyiv and surrounding areas after the strikes. Kyiv authorities said missiles caused fires in a supermarket building, houses and a market. Strikes in Kharkiv wounded over 40 people and damaged multi-storey buildings.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">In a sign of growing concern, Poland today scrambled four F-16 fighter jets to its border with Ukraine to protect its airspace.</span></p>