Russian drone attack kills three children and a woman in Kyiv region, Ukraine says

Outside the capital, a mother and her two 3-year-old children were killed in ​Kyiv region when a Russian drone strike hit a private home, ​the emergency service said. Kyiv region governor Tymur Tkachenko said a girl ⁠died in hospital after a separate drone strike in another district.

Tkachenko said the ​region endured more than a day of hostile attacks over several areas. The southwestern Fastiv ​district sustained the most damage, with more than 24 sites hit, including homes, industrial and utility buildings, the grounds of an agricultural enterprise and vehicles, he added.

Russian forces in ​the evening struck an area near an apartment building in the northern ​city of Sumy, killing one person and wounding another. Sumy is a frequent Russian ‌target ⁠near the border, in an area where Moscow says it wants to create a buffer zone.

Russia made no acknowledgement of the strikes. Moscow has been attacking the capital Kyiv and the surrounding Kyiv region with drones continually in recent weeks. In Kramatorsk, local ​officials said one ​person died in ⁠one of several bouts of shelling.

Kramatorsk is one of the "fortress cities" on eastern Donetsk Region repeatedly targeted by ​Russia in the slow advance through the region of ​its forces. In ⁠Moldova, on Ukraine's western border, the Foreign Ministry denounced what it said was an overnight drone intrusion north of the capital Chisinau.

Moldova's pro-Western government denounces ⁠Russia's ​invasion of Ukraine and numerous instances of ​drones it identified as Russian passing into its airspace.