By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-19 04:51:23 | Updated at 2025-01-19 08:28:37
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A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital killed three people on Saturday, Ukrainian leaders said, branding it a “heinous” attack, while Moscow described it as “retaliation”.
Ukrainian officials said another three people were killed in Russian strikes elsewhere in the country, and Moscow claimed fresh advances on the ground.
Russia frequently targets Kyiv with aerial attacks, but deadly strikes there are rare as the capital is heavily protected by air defences and better able to fend off attacks than elsewhere in the country.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the world to step up pressure on the Kremlin to force it to end the nearly three-year invasion.
City officials said the victims were two men, aged 43 and 25, and a 41-year-old woman.
Journalists in Kyiv reported seeing a multi-storey building with windows blown out, debris strewn across the street, flooding, and the charred facade of a damaged McDonald’s outlet.
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