Russia pummels Ukraine with drone and missile strikes, killing three | Russia

Russian forces attacked Kiev and other cities early Thursday, killing three people, including a 12-year-old boy, wounding more than 20 and severely damaging buildings, officials said.

Moscow has fired hundreds of drones at its neighbor almost every night since the start of the four-year war and has recently expanded daytime attacks.

Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram: “As a result of the enemy attack on the capital, two people died; a 12-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman.”

Another person was killed in a separate attack on the central city of Dnipro, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration, said on Telegram.

Ganzha said earlier that 10 people were injured in the attack, including a 40-year-old woman who was hospitalized in “serious condition.”

It was not immediately clear whether the woman was the person reported dead.

In Kiev, rescue teams pulled a child from the rubble of a collapsed residential building in the Podilsky district, Klitschko said. He added that at least 10 people, including many medics, were injured in the attack on the capital.

Klitschko said that a fire broke out in a building where missile debris fell and vehicles caught fire in the Obolonsky district of the capital.

Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kiev’s military administration, warned civilians to shelter in place until the missile alert is lifted.

A 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man were injured in a drone attack on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Oleg Synegubov, head of the regional military administration, said in a statement on Telegram.

Five people were injured in the attack in the southern port city of Odessa, the head of the city’s military administration, Sergiy Lysak, said in a statement on Telegram.