Russian drone and missile attacks leave teenage girl dead in Kyiv, five others killed in central Ukraine

Serhii Popko, caput of Kyiv’s subject administration, reported that the battle connected the metropolis continued for 7 and a fractional hours, with aerial raid sirens wailing done the night. Ukrainian aerial defences intercepted and downed arsenic galore arsenic 12 drones, helium said.

In Dnipro, cardinal Ukraine, a Russian rocket strike precocious connected Friday killed a 14-year-old on with 4 others, reported determination politician Serhii Lysak. The blast injured astatine slightest 21 others, including children, and destroyed aggregate residential buildings, houses, and a aesculapian centre. Police confirmed that a section officer’s woman and teenage girl were among the dead.

Elsewhere, Russian drone attacks and shelling inflicted much casualties successful Ukraine’s southbound and northeast, with 2 radical killed successful Kharkiv state and different 2 successful the Kherson region, according to section authorities. Kyiv province, though not portion of the capital, saw the decease of a pistillate owed to falling debris from a drone, portion a 13-year-old lad sustained injuries successful a abstracted incident.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched 91 drones and 7 missiles overnight crossed Ukrainian territory, of which 44 drones were intercepted and destroyed.

In Russia, authorities claimed their aerial defence had changeable down 17 Ukrainian drones implicit 4 regions adjacent the border, according to the Russian defence ministry, which besides reported further territorial gains successful eastbound Ukraine, including the seizure of a hamlet successful Donetsk. Meanwhile, Russia continues to grapple with securing its borderline country adjacent Kursk, pursuing a caller incursion.

(with inputs from AP)