Russian strikes on Kyiv and central Ukraine kill 2 teens and injure dozens

A Russian drone onslaught has killed a teen successful Kyiv during a nighttime barrage connected nan Ukrainian superior that lasted for hours

KYIV, Ukraine -- A Russian drone onslaught killed a teen successful Kyiv during a nighttime barrage connected nan Ukrainian superior that lasted for hours, officials said, while 4 group were reportedly killed successful a rocket onslaught connected cardinal Ukraine that besides near astatine slightest 21 injured.

According to Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko, nan drone slammed into a 25-story flat artifact Friday nighttime successful nan city's west, sidesplitting a 15-year-old woman and injuring 5 others. Ukraine's Emergency Service said 100 group were evacuated pursuing nan strike, which damaged respective apartments connected nan building's precocious floors.

Serhii Popko, who heads Kyiv's section subject administration, said that Russian forces overnight pummeled nan metropolis for 7 1/2 hours. Air ambush sirens wailed passim nan night, and Popko said that Ukrainian aerial defense changeable down up to a twelve Russian drones.

Also precocious Friday, a Russian rocket deed a residential area successful nan cardinal metropolis of Dnipro, sidesplitting a 14-year-old and 3 others, said location Gov. Serhii Lysak, adding that astatine slightest 21 others were injured including an 8-year-old and teenagers. The woman and teenage girl of a section policeman were pulled dormant from nan rubble, constabulary reported. The onslaught damaged complete a twelve flat buildings, backstage houses and a aesculapian facility.

A man and female died aft a Russian drone dropped explosives connected a colony successful nan confederate Kherson region, section prosecutors said, while a 61-year-old female was killed by shelling successful nan northeast.

In nan Kyiv province, which surrounds but does not see nan capital, flying debris from a drone onslaught killed a woman, Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported. A 13-year-old boy was wounded elsewhere successful nan region, it said.