Russia retaliates with mass missile attack on Ukraine after tanks promise | First Thing

Sending tanks is seen as growing ‘direct involvement in the conflict’ from US and Nato, Kremlin says. Plus, how did America’s eggs get absurdly expensive?

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Huge explosions shook Kyiv and sirens sounded across Ukraine on Thursday morning during a mass missile attack 24 hours after commitments were made by the US and Germany to send advanced battle tanks. There were reports of at least one person killed in the capital, Kyiv.

What has Volodymyr Zelenskiy said? In his nightly address, the Ukraine president praised the commitments and urged allies to provide large quantities of tanks quickly. He said: “The key thing now is speed and volume. The speed of training of our military, the speed of supplying tanks to Ukraine and the volume of tank support.”

What else is happening? Here’s what we know on day 337 of the invasion.

Doesn’t California have the strictest gun laws? Yes. In 1989, it became the first state in the nation to ban military-style assault weapons. The state’s per-capita gun homicide rate is lower than the US average. But even California’s Democratic supermajority, which has continued to pass a wide range of new gun regulations, can only do so much in a country where gun rights are fiercely protected.