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Russia's biggest military assault on Ukraine for months has been widely condemned.

Cities across the country were bombed, including, for the first time, the centre of the capital Kyiv.

The leaders of the Group of Seven industrialised democracies will hold emergency talks with Ukraine's President Zelensky in a few hours time to discuss the attacks.

Russia's Vladimir Putin said the attacks were in retaliation for Saturday's explosion on a key bridge linking Russia to Crimea.

A barrage of missiles struck areas across the country, from Lviv a city located in the west, to Zaporizhzhia which is a city in the south. The blast caused huge damage to civilian infrastructure.

One woman who managed to escape from Zaporizhzhia on Sunday, spoke to Newsday saying, "In Zaporizhzhia we don't ask ourselves every evening whether we are going to be targeted, it's just a question of when we are going to be target".

Describing the bombing in her hometown, Anna Prigoda said, "my dad called me and told me the house near our house was just destroyed."

(Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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