KYIV, Ukraine — Russia on Friday launched one of the largest barrages of missiles and drones of the war at targets across Ukraine, killing at least four people and damaging buildings nationwide, in what Moscow suggested was retaliation for Ukraine’s recent audacious assault on Russian strategic bomber bases.

Kyiv appeared to be one of the main targets. The thuds of air defense batteries and the staccato bursts of heavy machine guns echoed through the night in the Ukrainian capital as military units defending the city tried to take down missiles streaking overhead and attack drones that swooped in, their ominous buzz trailing over neighborhoods.

Over the course of some five hours after midnight, Russia launched 407 drones and decoys, nearly 40 cruise missiles and six ballistic missiles fr

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