At least three people killed in Russian attack in Ukraine

At least three people were killed on Saturday after Russia launched its latest airstrike against Ukraine, officials said.

Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko explained that the missiles hit at least five regions across the country and that three people were killed and eight injured after a skyscraper in the capital Kiev was hit.

“This is the style of terrorists. Russian style,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

In a separate post, Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration, cited that damage was caused by fragments from a downed missile and that air defenses had shot down more than 20 missiles around the city.

Emergency crews were combing through the rubble at the site, where a hole was visible in one side of the building.

Officials in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region said eight people were wounded – two of them children – and several buildings were destroyed in attacks in the area.

Governor Serhiy Lysak explained that air defenses destroyed nine missiles and three drones, but that residential buildings in the regional capital Dnipro and an unspecified infrastructure object were hit.

“Not a single military target,” Mayor Borys Filatov wrote separately in Telegram.

At least three Russian missiles also hit Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, with one hitting a gas line and causing a fire, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. He said emergency services were on the scene but gave no details about the casualties.

There were reports of explosions in other cities, but no indication of casualties or damage.

Moscow began stepping up regular air strikes on Ukraine in May as Kiev’s military planned a counteroffensive, which is now underway, to retake Russian-occupied territory in the east and south.