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In Short: The victims were identified as a 2-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, according to regional authorities.
The victims were identified as a 2-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, according to regional authorities.
Tkachenko stated that the strike also injured a third woman, who was hospitalized.
In the Vyshhorod district, another mother and child were injured and hospitalized following a separate Russian attack.
Earlier in the day, a woman was wounded in the Fastiv district and taken to the hospital.
This incident adds to the ongoing toll of civilian casualties in Ukraine due to Russian strikes.
Background
India has warned the US that new measures to levy tariffs on Russian oil could harm bilateral ties, as the US seeks to pressure Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv and surrounding areas injured at least 18 people, including children, according to Ukrainian authorities.
What's still developing
- A woman and two young children were killed in a Russian strike in the village of Hlevakha, in the Fastiv district of Kyiv Oblast, Governor Tymur Tkachenko reported on Sept. 19.
- Preliminary information indicates a Russian drone struck a house in Hlevakha, killing the three victims and injuring a third woman, police said.
- Air raid alerts in the region continued almost uninterrupted throughout the day as Russian forces repeatedly attacked the region with drones, local authorities said.
- Moscow Oblast came under a large-scale drone attack, with Russian air defenses downing 249 drones, according to local authorities.
- "Our shared European home is not the place for 'Russian houses' promoting war propaganda," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
- The Kyiv Independent's Nick Allard and Asami Terajima travel to Kharkiv Oblast to meet reconnaissance soldiers from Ukraine's 60th Mechanized Brigade, part of the 3rd Army Corps, and witness the training required to perform one of the army's most dangerous roles.
- Russian attacks damaged at least nine civilian sites across four districts of Kyiv Oblast over the course of the day, including five warehouses, a production facility, a garage, vehicles, and an apartment building.