Ukraine war: Three people were killed in a missile attack on Kiev Thursday night

The regional police said that three people were killed, including an 11-year-old girl, in a new nighttime missile attack on Kiev.

Russia, the Ukrainian capital, is subject to regular air strikes with missiles and drones.

The latest attack, in which 11 people were wounded, took place in the eastern Desnyansky and Dniprovskie regions.

A 33-year-old woman and the mother of the 34-year-old girl were also killed.

Earlier information from Ukrainian officials said two children had died, but that has since been revised.

This is the fourth attack this week, and it follows 17 attacks on the Ukrainian capital throughout the month of May. Most of them occurred at night, although at least one occurred during the day.

Pictures released by the military authorities showed rescue teams tending to people, as well as damaged buildings.

In a number of early morning posts on Telegram, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that “a series of explosions” occurred in the city, and that rescuers were dealing with fallen debris and fires.

Meanwhile, Russian-backed officials in the occupied part of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region said five people were killed and 19 others wounded in Ukrainian shelling of a poultry farm on Wednesday.

And the governor of the Belgorod region in western Russia, which borders Ukraine, said Thursday morning that at least two people were injured in an attack on the town of Shchebykino, which he blamed on Ukrainian forces.

“The night is tense for Shchepkino again. Ukrainian forces have been shelling the city for an hour,” Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on his Telegram channel.

In recent weeks, Russia — which launched its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 — has used kamikaze drones as well as an array of cruise and ballistic missiles to attack targets in Ukraine.

Kiev has been heavily targeted, and analysts believe Moscow is trying to exhaust and damage Ukraine’s air defenses ahead of a long-awaited counter-attack, which the Ukrainian government has been planning for months.