KYIV: Russian missile strikes killed three people including a child in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro while a teenager and another person died in attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region, officials said Saturday.
\nOvernight strikes on Dnipro wounded 19 others and damaged multiple buildings, said Sergiy Lysak, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region.
\nA two-story residential building was destroyed, he said.
\nImages shared by Lysak showed rescuers working in a pile of rubble, while another showed what appeared to be a hospital room with its windows blown out.
\n\u201cThree people were killed in Dnipro, including a child. Nineteen were injured, four of them children. Eight are hospitalized,\u201d Lysak said.
\nSeparate night attacks on the capital Kyiv and surrounding region left two people dead, including a teenage girl who was killed in a drone strike, according to regional authorities.
\nUkrainian cities including Kyiv have been subjected to deadly drone and missile attacks throughout Russia\u2019s invasion.
\nKyiv has been asking for more air defenses from its allies ahead of what is likely to be its toughest winter yet, as Moscow ramps up strikes on energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV: Russian missile strikes killed three people including a child in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro while a teenager and another person died in attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region, officials said Saturday. Overnight strikes on Dnipro wounded 19 others and damaged multiple buildings, said Sergiy Lysak, the governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk region. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n