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Kiev
Three people have been killed and three others injured in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
"My condolences to their families and loved ones,” Zelensky wrote on X. The death toll had initially been estimated at four.
Unlike during previous attacks on Kiev, no air raid alarm was issued beforehand, with the warning only sounding after multiple explosions. According to official reports, ballistic missiles were used in the attack. Military authorities said the Lukianivska metro station near the city centre was closed due to the extent of the damage.
The station is located next to an arms factory which has been targeted multiple times by Russian missile strikes.
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that a production facility for long-range Neptune missiles had been destroyed with high-precision strikes. It said the attack was retaliation after Ukraine fired at the Russian region of Belgorod with US-made ATACMS missiles.
According to the Ukrainian air defence system, two out of four ballistic missiles were shot down, with debris reportedly falling over the city.
Images circulating on social media showed damaged cars and flooding caused by a burst water pipe at the station. In parts of Kiev, home to a population of 3 million, water supplies were temporarily disrupted.
Elsewhere, Zelensky said 10 people were injured in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, with others potentially still under the rubble.
Earlier, Russian authorities said a fuel depot in the Tula region, south of Moscow, had caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack.
The region’s governor, Dmitry Milyaev, wrote on the Telegram messaging service that there had been no injuries in the attack, with five drones destroyed. Tula, located 160 kilometres south of Moscow, was targeted hours after a similar drone attack in the Kaluga region, south-west of the capital, which also caused a fire at a fuel storage facility, local authorities said.