Kyiv, Aug 6:Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 44 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack was the latest in a series of large-scale Russian ballistic missile strikes that have become near-routine this summer. The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces downed 475 Ukrainian drones overnight over 16 Russian regions, as well as illegally annexed Crimea and the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. But the Russian Defence Ministry said it struck transport, logistics and distribution centres involved in military activity. It said in a statement on Facebook that “in minutes, Russian missiles destroyed what the company had built over decades.”