Child Among Three Killed in Russian Strikes Near Kyiv
A regional military official said three people died and three others were wounded in the Brovary district northeast of the Ukrainian capital as Kyiv warned of incoming ballistic missiles.
Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in a district northeast of Ukraine's capital, a regional military official said Saturday, as Kyiv warned residents of incoming ballistic missiles.
Three people, among them a child, were killed and three others were wounded in strikes on the Brovary district northeast of Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram.
Falling debris from the attacks damaged houses and vehicles and set a nonresidential building on fire, Tkachenko said.
Ukraine's state emergency service released photographs of a destroyed building engulfed in flames, saying the attack in the village of Pukhivka demolished a two-story house and two cars and started a fire in a warehouse.
An Agence France-Presse reporter in the capital heard about a dozen explosions as Ukraine's air force warned of the "threat of ballistic weapon use from the north."
Kyiv's military administration said on Telegram that four people were wounded in overnight attacks in the city itself. Earlier, it had told residents to take shelter, saying: "An air raid alert has been declared in Kyiv due to the use of ballistic missiles."
Moscow has sharply escalated its attacks on the Ukrainian capital in recent months, typically firing salvos of ballistic missiles — which are difficult to intercept — in short bursts.
The accounts of casualties and damage came from Ukrainian officials and emergency services. There was no immediate comment from Russia on the strikes described by the regional administration.
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