Russian attacks on Ukraine kills three, including a 12-year-old child

Kyiv’s mayor says the attacks hit Podilskyi and Obolonskyi districts, causing large fires and damage to residential buildings.

Russian forces have bombed Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other cities, killing three people, including a 12-year-old child, and wounding dozens of others, according to Ukrainian officials.

Kyiv’s Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said the attacks on Thursday killed a boy and a woman and wounded at least 18 people, including medics.

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“According to doctors, two people died in the capital – a 12-year-old boy and a 35-year-old woman,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging application. “[Eighteen] city residents have been injured so far. Doctors have hospitalised 11 victims.”

An air raid warning for Kyiv remains in place, Klitschko added, urging residents to stay in their shelters.

A separate attack on the central city of Dnipro killed one more person, according to Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration there. The attack also wounded 10 others, he wrote earlier.

The Russian air raids on Kyiv began early on Thursday and caused widespread damage across the Podilskyi, Obolonskyi and Desnyanskyi districts, according to the city’s mayor.

Debris from the attacks caused fires in a residential building in Podilskyi, damaged a hotel and caused a home to collapse. “A child and her mother were rescued from the rubble,” Klitschko wrote.

In Obolonskyi district, the strikes damaged an office building and set cars ablaze. At least four medics were injured as a result of repeated shelling, Klitschko said.

Falling debris also set off a fire at a two-storey residential building in the Desnyanski district, he added.

Photos posted online showed fires burning out ⁠of control and smoke billowing skyward.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, a drone strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, while an attack on the southern port city of Odesa wounded five people, officials said.

There was no immediate comment from Russia.