Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Russia says ‘all targets hit’ in overnight missile barrage on Ukraine

By AFP 16 May 2023, 2:12 pm 2 Edit

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry, firefighters put out fire caused by fragments of a Russian rocket after it was shot down by air defense system during the night Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday, May 16, 2023. (Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry via AP)

Russia says that all the targets assigned by its military in an overnight missile barrage on Ukraine had been hit, after Kyiv announced it had downed nearly 20 Russian missiles.

The defense ministry in Moscow says long-range precision-strike missiles had targeted storage facilities hosting “ammunition, weapons and military equipment supplied by Western countries,” adding that “all assigned targets have been hit.”