Russian missile strike on apartment building in Ukraine kills 14, including four children. Zelensky calls it the Russian army’s ‘birthday gift’ to Putin.

A Russian missile and drone barrage overnight struck multiple Ukrainian regions, with Ukraine's Air Force reporting dozens of intercepted missiles and well over a hundred drones downed. In Pryluky, a cruise missile strike destroyed two sections of a five-story apartment building, killing 14 people including four children and injuring 50 more.

Strikes also hit Kyiv and Kremenchuk, killing four more people combined. President Zelensky called the Pryluky strike a 'birthday present' to Vladimir Putin, who turned 74 the same day, and said the real target was energy infrastructure.

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed the strikes hit military and drone-production facilities, including a site it said stored missile components in Pryluky, and made no mention of energy infrastructure or civilian casualties.

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