India, July 7 -- Russia unleashed waves of missiles and drones at Ukraine early on Monday, killing at least 21 people in attacks that exposed widening gaps in the country's air defences more than four years into Moscow's full-scale invasion, authorities said.

All of the ballistic missiles launched by Russia struck their targets, underscoring Kyiv's need for more US-made Patriot interceptor missiles - a point Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will likely reiterate at a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, this week. Fifteen people were killed in the capital of Kyiv, which was Russia's main target, and 56 were injured, according to administrative head Tymur Tkachenko. Another six people were killed in the wider Kyiv region and 21 were inju...