EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
President Zelenskyy says Russia launched a massive wave of hundreds of drones, proving Moscow has deliberately chosen to escalate the ongoing war.
Moscow has chosen to "deliberately" escalate it's attacks, Kyiv said.
LONDON -- Russia targeted Ukraine with a "massive" aerial attack, including waves of drones, launching so many of them that "there was not a single hour when our skies were clear" for most of Wednesday and into Thursday morning, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Hundreds of attack drones were fired between midnight and 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, the president said.