"Today, Russia's armed forces have inflicted a massive strike with high-precision long-range weapons against Ukrainian military, communications and energy targets," the Russian defence ministry said in its daily briefing.Earlier, President Vladimir Putin said the attacks were retaliation for what he called Ukraine's "terrorist attack" against a vital bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula.The Russian-installed governor of Crimea said Russia would have already won its "special military operation" had such strikes been carried out every day.Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechnya region who has been outspoken in his criticism of Russia's military leadership and repeatedly called for a more aggressive campaign, said he was "100% satisfied" with the strikes.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strikes, which hit the centre of Kyiv and several other Ukrainian cities, showed Russia was trying to "wipe us off the face of the earth.""