One killed, 200 homes damaged in Russian missile attack on Ukraine's historic city of Korosten

A Russian attack on Ukraine’s Korosten in Zhytomyr region damaged up to 200 homes and killed one person on Friday (April 3), according to local officials.

It was part of a large-scale daytime Russian strike that killed at least two people in Ukraine on Friday, officials said, in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced as an "Easter escalation" and as Moscow shifts tactics to avoid Ukrainian air defences.

Since the beginning of the war more than four years ago, Russia has mainly carried out major drone and missile strikes at night.

In recent weeks, it has repeatedly sent hundreds of drones and missiles during the daytime, setting a record for the number of weapons used in one such strike on March 24.

Russia launched 542 drones and 37 missiles since last night, Thursday, targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure facilities, the Ukrainian air force said on Friday.

Air defense units shot down 515 drones and 26 missiles, the air force said on the Telegram app.

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