A pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital killed three people, including a 9-year-old and her mother, officials say.
“Children’s Day has to be about safe childhood, summer, life,” she tweeted. “But today it is about new crimes of against children.”
An elderly woman cries over the body of her daughter, killed as a result of a downed missile strike on Kyiv.The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense cited different figures for child casualties in the war, saying at least 484 children have been killed and 992 injured. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the differences with the U.N. figures.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said authorities were investigating why a shelter at a medical facility was locked, preventing some people from taking shelter during the bombardment. He gave orders to the heads of the city’s districts to immediately check if all the shelters in Kyiv are accessible. Ukraine’s air defense has become increasingly effective at intercepting Russian drones and missiles, but the resulting debris can cause fires and injure people below.
Across Ukraine, the presidential office said Thursday, a total of seven civilians were killed and 27 injured over the previous 24 hours. Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said that Ukrainian shelling left eight people wounded overnight but said there had been no incursion by enemy forces.
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