Russian strikes near Ukrainian capital kill three, including child

Attack comes as US Senate passes new Russia sanctions and Kyiv pleads for more interceptors. Russian strikes have killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding Kyiv, according to a Ukrainian official, as explosions rocked the capital and fires broke out across parts of the city. The strikes hit three locations in the Boryspil district, just outside Kyiv, on Saturday, according to Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the regional administration. Three more people were wounded. The attack was the latest in a Russian bombardment that Ukraine’s depleted air defences have been increasingly unable to stop, exposing a widening gap between Russia’s ability to attack Ukrainian cities and Kyiv’s ability to thwart those attacks.

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