India, Jan. 10 -- At least four people were killed and 25 were injured in Kyiv as Russia on Friday bombed Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles in a large-scale overnight attack. Over the last four years of war-torn situations, this was the second time that the country used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine, in what is being seen as a warning to Kyiv's NATO allies and the West.

Calling the attacks escalatory and unacceptable, European leaders condemned it. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that the Oreshnik missile was meant as a warning to the US and Europe. "Putin doesn't want peace, Russia's reply to diplomacy is more missiles and destruction," Kallas wrote on social media.

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