Russia: 3 people were killed and 29 injured in an attack on Ukraine overnight in Kyiv

Three people were killed and 29 others, including six children, were injured in an accident Russian air attack overnight Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that floods in Kyiv destroyed two high-rise residential buildings.

The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said via the Telegram messaging app that seven of the injured, including two children, were taken to city hospitals.

The city’s mayor added that debris from the destroyed Russian air weapons fell on a nine-storey apartment building in the leafy Desnyansky district of Kiev, sparking a fire that quickly engulfed several floors.

The fire has since been extinguished.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said 13 people were rescued from the upper floors of the building.

The full extent of the attack was not immediately known.

Kiev and the surrounding area were under air raid warnings for about an hour and a half before the air force canceled them at around 12:30 a.m.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their attacks on each other’s territory.

But thousands, most of them Ukrainians, were killed In the war that Russia It began with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.