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On the 463rd day of the Russian invasion, Kiev was again the target of a Russian night attack, which left at least two wounded. On the Russian side, two civilians were killed and two others wounded in a bombing raid on the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine.

Ukraine said Friday it had intercepted "all" Russian missiles and drones that targeted Kiev overnight, wounding at least two people, the sixth attack in as many days on the capital. "All 15 cruise missiles and 21 (Russian) attack drones were destroyed by air defense," the Ukrainian Air Force said on the social network Telegram.

According to the head of the local military administration, Sergei Popko, Russia has used X-101/555 missiles and Shahed explosive drones. "The terror on Kiev with air attacks continues," he lamented on Telegram. "In the last six days, the (Russians) have already carried out their sixth airstrike on the city," he lashed out as the Ukrainian capital is again targeted by the Russian military after a lull in recent months.

The main information:

  • A new Russian night attack targeted the Ukrainian capital on the night of Thursday to Friday.
  • 15 cruise missiles and 21 attack drones were reportedly destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses.
  • Two civilians were killed and two others wounded in Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, which has opened an investigation, "an 11-year-old child was wounded (and) a 68-year-old man hospitalized" as a result of this "massive attack". Houses and cars were also "damaged", according to the source. The police chief of the Kiev region, Andriy Nebytov, said that "five apartment buildings were damaged" as a result of this new Russian attack. "The air alert lasted more than two hours" in the night, he detailed.

Since the beginning of May, Russia has stepped up drone and missile attacks on Kiev, often at night, a tactic denounced by Ukraine as aimed at terrorizing the civilian population at a time when the Ukrainian army says it is completing its preparations for a counter-offensive aimed at reconquering the territories occupied by Moscow. Russia, as usual, says its salvos always "successfully" target military targets.

In Russia, two civilians killed in a bombing of a border region of Ukraine

Two civilians were killed and two wounded in a Ukrainian bombardment of the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, said Friday the governor of this territory subjected to repeated strikes in recent days.

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"Shrapnel hit passing cars. In one of them, two women ... died on the spot from their wounds," Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram, adding that the shots hit a road in a village near the city of Chebekino, bordering Ukraine.