
MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - The Russian Defence Ministry said on Thursday it had carried out what it described as a massive overnight strike against Ukraine's military-industrial-complex using air, land and sea-based long-range high-precision weapons and drones.
It said in a statement it had hit factories in Ukraine's aviation, rocket and space, machine-building and armoured vehicle production industries, as well as manufacturing facilities for rocket fuel and gunpowder.
Reuters could not verify the assertion.
Ukrainian officials said on Thursday that the overnight attack had seen Russia pound Kyiv with missiles and drones, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 70 and smashing buildings in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.