Father and son, 4, killed in Russia attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv region ‘with North Korea missile’
- Moscow has promised a ‘tough response’ to Kyiv’s surprise military incursion into Russia, said by a top Ukrainian official to involve ‘thousands of troops’
Two people were killed, including a four-year old boy, in a Russian drone and missile barrage on the Kyiv region overnight into Sunday, while in Russia the regional governor of Kursk said 13 people were wounded when a Ukrainian missile shot down by Russian air defences fell on a residential building.
The bodies of a 35-year old man and his son were found under rubble after fragments of missiles fell on a residential area in Kyiv’s suburban Brovary district, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.
Russian forces likely used a North Korean missile during the strike, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.
“According to preliminary information, the Russians used a North Korean missile in this attack, yet another deliberate terrorist strike against Ukraine,” he wrote on social media.
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He again called on the country’s allies to lift restrictions on how Kyiv can use the long-range weapons supplied by the West.
