Reuters. Russia launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Thursday (March 21), injuring at least 10 people and damaging residential buildings and industrial facilities, city officials said. An 11-year-old girl was among the two people taken to hospital, according to city officials. The first large attack in recent weeks targeted the city with both ballistic and cruise missiles, authorities said. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said missile debris hit several residential buildings, industrial sites, and a kindergarten across the city. Ukraine's air defences shot down all 31 Russian missiles targeting the capital, the air force commander said. Air raid alerts lasted nearly three hours.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday (March 20) offered his condolences to the families and loved ones of the five people killed in a Russian strike in Ukraine's northern city of Kharkiv. The Russian missile hit an industrial area in Kharkiv, killing at least five people and injuring eight while causing a major fire in a printing house, local authorities said.
One person has been killed and two more wounded in the Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod, local authorities said on Wednesday (March 20). Belgorod mayor, Valentin Demidov, wrote on Telegram messaging app that the man was in a car during the shelling. According to the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, a 17-year-old girl and a man were injured and hospitalized. Demidov added that 16 cars and several buildings were damaged. Additionally, a school and two kindergartens were hit, but there were no children there as the region had announced early holidays starting March 20.
Belgorod, a frontier province that borders Ukraine's Kharkiv region, has come under frequent attack from Kyiv's forces since 2022. In December, 25 people were killed in a single missile strike on the city.
