Hello and welcome to News Hour live on the BBC World Service we're coming to you

from London I'm Kropa Bardi and it's very good to have your company. At least six people have been

killed after what has been called the biggest air attack on Ukraine by Russia. The

barrage of drone and missile attacks began across the country overnight on Monday and continued well and

continued well into the morning.

The commander of the Air Force said the country's forces had downed

102 out of the 127 missiles and 99 out of the 109 drones launched by Russia in that

attack.

In a video statement on telegram, President of Laudemere Zellensky said Ukraine had focused all its efforts in the wake of the devastating

attacks.

This was one of the largest strikes, a combined one, more than a hundred missiles of various types and about a hundred Shahead drones.

And like most previous Russian strikes, this one is just as vile, targeting critical civilian infrastructure in most of our regions, from

Harquevo-Les and Kiev to Odessa and our Western regions.

Unfortunately, their casualties.

Well, President Z Zelensky went on to reiterate calls for the West to allow the arms it's

supplying to be used for strikes deep into Russian territory. In a moment we'll be going to the capital key but from

Nipro in central Ukraine this man Andrei shared his thoughts with the BBC.

Today we had massive rocket attack by Russian Federation.

I have heard two explosions in the sky,

probably the anti-aircraft system in the

Nipro tried to intercept this Russian rockets.

We are fighting for our freedom and I am sure that the

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