Russia Ukraine strike kills 3 injures 29 in overnight attack on Kyiv

Three people were killed and 29 injured, including six children, in a Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv that destroyed two high-rise apartment buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

Seven of the injured, including two children, were taken to the city’s hospitals, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.

Debris from destroyed Russian air weapons fell onto a nine-story apartment building in Kyiv’s leafy Desnianskyi district, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed several stories, the mayor added.

The fire has since been extinguished.

Ukraine’s state emergency service said that 13 people were rescued from the building’s upper floors.

The full scale of the attack was not immediately known.

Kyiv and its surrounding region were under air-raid alerts for about 1-1/2 hours before the air force called them off at around 12:30 a.m.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strikes on each other’s territory.

But thousands, mostly Ukrainians, have been killed in the war that Russia started with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.