A girl and her mother They are among the three people who died. by a Russian attack on Kyiv this morning, which has also claimed the life of another woman. According to witnesses, the three victims were going to an air raid shelter when “nobody opened it,” according to the father and husband of the victims.

The Ukrainian air force has assured that the air defenses shot down the 10 Iskander ballistic and cruise missiles fired by Russia in the 18th attack on the capital since early May.

However, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has indicated that three school buildings, a kindergarten, six residential buildings and a police station have been damaged. Although it has not expressed what the main objectives were of the attack, the Ministry of Energy has reported that no energy facilities were hit.

In the bombardments three people have died, including a nine-year-old girl and her mother. “Three people, one of them a child, died near the clinic last night,” Klitschko said, explaining that “a rocket fragment fell near the clinic entrance four minutes after the air alert was announced. And people went to the shelter.”

“The air alert sounded. My wife took our daughter and they ran to the entrance here,” Yaroslav Ryabchuk, a senior official, told Reuters. husband and father of the victims, in the Desnyanskyi district. “The entrance was closed, there were already between five and ten women with children. Nobody opened them. They knocked with enough force. They tried to enter the shelter, nobody opened them. My wife died,” she lamented.