Russia Rains Strikes Across Ukraine, Killing Two

KYIV: Russia pummelled Ukraine with drone and missile attacks overnight, killing two including a child and triggering air alerts in the capital Kyiv, officials said Thursday. Moscow has fired hundreds of drones on its neighbour almost nightly since the beginning of the four-year war, and recently expanded daytime strikes. “As a result of the enemy attack on the capital, two people died – a 12-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman,” Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram. Rescuers pulled another child from the rubble of a residential building that collapsed in the capital’s Podilsky district, Klitschko said. The attack on Kyiv wounded at least 10 people, including several medics, Klitschko said. A blaze broke out at a building in the capital’s Obolonsky district where missile debris fell, and cars were on fire, he added. Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, warned civilians in the capital to shelter until a missile alert was lifted. A separate attack on the central city of Dnipro wounded another 10 people, including a 40-year-old woman hospitalised “in a serious condition”, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration posted on Telegram. A drone strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, the head of the regional military administration Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram. Five people were wounded in an attack in the southern port city of Odesa, the head of the city’s military administration Sergiy Lysak said on Telegram. bur-cms/tc AFP 160125 GMT APR 26



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