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.
He again called on the country’s allies to lift restrictions on how Kyiv can use the long-range weapons supplied by the West.