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Father, 4-year-old son killed in Russian air strike on Kyiv region


A 4-year-old boy and his 35-year-old father were killed in an overnight Russian air strike outside of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

Three other people, including a teenage boy, were wounded in the attack just east of the capital, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said involved a North Korean-made missile.

He did not offer further detail but Ukrainian emergency services earlier said the victims' home in the Brovary district was struck by debris from a downed Russian missile.

Footage posted by Ukraine's State Emergency Service showed workers digging through a pile of debris in the darkness and lifting the body of a child from underneath it.

'According to preliminary information, the Russians used a North Korean missile in this attack — yet another deliberate terrorist strike against Ukraine,' Zelenskiy wrote on X, adding that experts were still examining the weapon.

Moscow's overnight strike also included 57 Iranian-made attack drones that were launched across Ukraine, 53 of which were destroyed by air defences, Kyiv's air force said.

It said that Russia had fired a total of four North Korean-made KN-23 missiles, but did not specify the fate of the other three.

Reuters

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