Kyiv: After a week of strikes, Russia launched an airstrike on Kyiv early on Thursday, killing at least three people, including a child, and instilling new terror in the city.

Moscow's forces have recently attacked the Ukrainian capital from the air, including an unusual daytime attack on Monday that forced locals to seek cover.

Three people were killed and 12 others were injured when cruise and ballistic missiles were launched at the city early on Thursday morning (0000 GMT), according to officials.

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The Kyiv City Military Administration posted on Telegram, "In the Desnyanskyi district: three people died, including one child (born in 2012), and 10 people were injured, including one child." Two people were hurt in the Dniprovskyi district."

According to earlier official reports, the strikes claimed the lives of two children. According to the governor of Russia's western Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, at least two people were hurt in an attack on the town of Shebekino on Thursday morning that was attributed to Ukrainian troops.

"Shebekino faces tension once more this evening. For an hour, Ukrainian troops shelled the city, he claimed. Gladkov previously noted that four people were hurt during shelling in the same town.

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In a strike on a local centre for displaced people on Tuesday, one person was killed and two others were injured. In recent weeks, a number of oil depots have also been attacked. Attacks have occurred as Kiev claims to be getting ready for a significant offensive against Moscow's forces.

Since its invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, Russia has experienced an increase in attacks on its soil, including a drone attack on Moscow on Tuesday.
 The situation is extremely concerning, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Due to the escalating attacks, Russia announced on Wednesday that it was evacuating hundreds of kids from villages.

According to Governor Gladkov, the first 300 evacuated kids would be transported to Voronezh, a city located about 250 kilometres further into Russia. He added that more than 1,000 children would be relocated to other provinces in the upcoming days.
Near Voronezh, a reporter for the state-run RIA Novosti reported that buses had arrived with about 150 people on board.

The Kremlin has claimed that Ukraine and its Western backers are responsible for the rise in reported attacks.
 After a drone attack on Moscow's residential areas on Tuesday, the foreign ministry claimed that the West was "pushing the Ukrainian leadership towards increasingly reckless acts."

At least three structures, including two residential high-rises in the affluent southwest of Moscow, suffered minor damage. Ukraine, which has experienced attacks on its capital on a nearly nightly basis, denied any "direct involvement."

When Germany announced that it would drastically reduce Moscow's diplomatic presence on its soil in response to a similar move by the Kremlin, tensions between Russia and the West increased even further.

Four of the five Russian consulates in Germany, according to Berlin, have been ordered to close.

The action was taken in response to Moscow's decision to limit the number of German government employees permitted in Russia to 350, a move that Berlin claims would force hundreds of local workers and civil servants to leave the nation.

Moscow referred to Germany's choice as "ill-thought-out" and promised retaliation.
A new $300 million arms package for Ukraine was also announced by the Pentagon in the US. This package included air defence systems and millions of rounds of ammunition.

The United States asserted that it opposed any attack inside of Russia and instead gave Kiev the tools and instruction it needed to retake its territory. The additional shipments of aid would bring the total cost of US security assistance to Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February 2022 to $37.6 billion, according to the Defence Department.

With two days of fighting in the Belgorod region last week, there was the largest armed incursion into Russia from Ukraine since the offensive started.

Over the weekend, AFP journalists travelled to the regional capital, also known as Belgorod. Residents admitted to some worry, but a sense of fatalism predominated.

How can we help? Just 'Oh!' and 'Ah!' are shouted. What exactly will change? stated retired teacher Rimma Malieva, 84. Most people AFP spoke with expressed confidence in the authorities to address the flaws exposed by the most recent raid.

Builder Evgeny Sheikin, 41, still maintained that "it should not have happened." According to officials installed by Russia, at least five people were killed and 19 injured in a nighttime bombardment in the Lugansk region of Ukraine.

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The Yuri Olefirenko, a warship of the Ukrainian navy, was allegedly destroyed in Odesa, according to the Russian army, a claim AFP was unable to independently verify.