KYIV: Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding capital Kyiv \u200con Saturday, an \u200cofficial said.<\/p>\n
Tymur \u200bTkachenko, \u200chead \u2060of \u200bthe Kyiv \u2060regional administration, said Russian strikes were recorded at three locations in the Boryspil district, \u2060near the capital.<\/p>\n
Three \u200cmore \u200cpeople were \u200binjured \u200cin the attack, \u200che said.<\/p>\n
Falling debris from the attacks damaged houses and vehicles and caused a fire in a non-residential building, he said.<\/p>\n
Inside the capital, a dozen explosions were heard as Ukraine\u2019s air force warned of the \u201cthreat of ballistic weapon use from the north.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAn air raid alert has been declared in Kyiv due to the use of ballistic missiles,\u201d the city\u2019s military administration said, instructing residents to take shelter.<\/p>\n
In the capital itself, fires were reported in two \u200cdistricts, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, following an air \u2060raid \u2060alert.<\/p>\n
Witnesses heard several powerful explosions that shook the center of the city.<\/p>\n
Ukraine is chronically short of air defenses capable of downing \u200bRussia\u2019s \u200bballistic missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV: Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding capital Kyiv \u200con Saturday, an \u200cofficial said. Tymur \u200bTkachenko, \u200chead \u2060of \u200bthe Kyiv \u2060regional administration, said Russian strikes were recorded at three locations in the Boryspil district, \u2060near the capital. Three \u200cmore \u200cpeople were \u200binjured \u200cin the attack, \u200che said. Falling debris …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101460,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101439\/revisions\/101460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}