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Yesterday, Sky News spoke with military analyst Professor Michael Clarke about the effectiveness of Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine.

He told presenter Gareth Barlow that the level of damage that can be inflicted cannot be underestimated, as evidenced by the loss of life across the country from such attacks.

He also pointed out that that even though Ukraine's air force often manages to divert drones away from its cities using electronic warfare, the explosive warheads on them will still detonate when they land somewhere else.

However, Clarke explains that overnight drone attacks on cities have a larger effect on morale than on tactical battlefield results.

"Is it making a strategic difference? Probably not," he says.

"The things that make a difference for the Russians are the glide bombs - things that can affect the front lines.

"The drones are certainly bringing misery to the civilian population because they're forcing them to spend nights in the air raid shelters and in the tube stations in Kyiv rather than at home. So it has a morale effect."

Here are the latest images showing Odesa this morning.

Two people have died in the region and eight others are injured following intense Russian shelling last night.

By Deborah Haynes, Sky News security and defence editor

"The Russians are signalling that there may be - let's call it what it is - there may be an attack."

Fictional UK Home Secretary

The warning from the home secretary at an emergency Cobra meeting is stark. The prime minister must decide what to do after the Kremlin deployed a large task force of warships, fighter jets and submarines to the North Atlantic.

The whole of the United Kingdom is within range of their missiles.

This is the opening scene of a new five-part podcast series from Sky News and Tortoise called The Wargame. It simulates a Russian attack on the UK.

A year in the making, but recorded in just one day, The Wargame explores the reality of the threat that Vladimir Putin's Russia could pose to Britain, its people and normal, everyday life.

Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed seven people and injured 34 over the past day, regional authorities reported.

In Kyiv, which came under one of the heaviest attacks on the capital of the war so far, four people were injured and fires broke out across multiple districts, mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

A drone attack on Odesa killed two men and injured eight other people, four of whom were hospitalised, governor Oleh Kiper said. Medical facilities, including a maternity hospital, were also damaged in the southern city.

In Dnipro, Russian attacks killed one person and injured another yesterday and wounded two other men overnight, governor Serhii Lysak said.

Three people were killed in Donetsk and eight others were injured, while one person was injured in Kharkiv, officials said. 

One person was killed and eight injured in the Kherson region, while an elderly woman was injured in Zaporizhzhia, according to its officials.

Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y says overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv were among the largest the city has faced during the war so far.

Residential buildings and urban infrastructure sites were damaged in Ukraine's capital, with the Odesa, Dnipro and Chernihiv regions also targeted by Moscow.

ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y says Moscow's missiles and drone strikes "drown out" global efforts to force Russia into peace.

"It is vital that the response to this and other similar Russian attacks is not silence from the world, but concrete action," he says.

Ukraine's air force says Russia launched 315 drones and seven missiles at the country overnight.

The figure is a slight drop from the one reported yesterday, when Ukraine said Russia launched 479 drones and 20 missiles in what it called the biggest overnight bombardment of the war so far.

The main direction of the attack was Kyiv, the air force adds, with the Odesa, Dnipro and Chernihiv regions also targeted by Moscow.

It says of the 315 drones and seven missiles, 284 drones and all the missiles were destroyed.

Pictures demonstrate the scale of last night's attack on Kyiv.

Multi-story buildings across the city have been hit by Russian projectiles.

Firefighters can be seen continuing to tackle the smoke billowing from their charred facades.

Russia "relentlessly terrorised" the Ukrainian capital with attack drones through the night, says the head of Kyiv's military district.

"They targeted civilian infrastructure and peaceful residents of the city," Timur Tkachenko says.

Countless loud explosions could be seen shaking the city and lighting up the night AG百家乐在线官网.

Photos and videos posted on Telegram channels showed heavy smoke rising in the darkness across different parts of Kyiv.

The attack sparked fires in residential and non-residential neighbourhoods and open space areas, city officials said.

Air raid alerts in Kyiv and most Ukrainian regions lasted five hours until around 5am, according to military data. 

Russia has lost 998,080 soldiers in combat since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine said in a statement.

While the general staff did not specify, this figure is understood to include killed, wounded, missing and captured.

Further losses include nearly 11,000 tanks, 40,000 drones and almost 30,000 artillery systems, according to the general staff.

Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports that Vladimir Putin's forces shot down 102 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.

Three of the drones were shot down over the Moscow region, the Russian defence ministry reportedly specified.