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Russian missile strikes killed three people, including a child, in the Kyiv region on Saturday, said local authorities, as an air raid alert was declared in and around the Ukrainian capital. The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade on a landmark visit to Serbia, a country with close ties to Moscow.
Issued on: 08/08/2026 - 08:10 Modified: 08/08/2026 - 08:35
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Russian strikes killed three people including a child in a district northeast of Ukraine 's capital, a regional military official said on Saturday, as Kyiv warned of incoming ballistic missiles.
Moscow has significantly upped its attacks on the Ukrainian capital in recent months, typically firing salvos of hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles in short blitzes.
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Three people including a child were killed and three others were wounded in strikes on Brovary district northeast of Kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram.
Falling debris from the attacks damaged houses and vehicles and caused a fire in a non-residential building, he said.
Ukraine's state emergency service shared photos of a destroyed building covered in flames, saying the attack in the village of Pukhivka destroyed a two-storey house and two cars and sparked a fire in a warehouse.
An AFP reporter in the capital heard a dozen explosions as Ukraine's air force warned of the "threat of ballistic weapon use from the north".
Four people were wounded from overnight attacks in the city, Kyiv's military administration said on Telegram.
"An air raid alert has been declared in Kyiv due to the use of ballistic missiles," it had said earlier, instructing residents to take shelter.
The strikes came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Belgrade on his first official visit to Serbia to discuss security with a rare European country still closely allied with Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Welcomed at Belgrade airport by Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic, Zelensky had dinner with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic .
"We will discuss expanding economic ties between our countries, relations with the European Union, other areas that can benefit our nations, and security issues," Zelensky said on X shortly after his arrival.
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With Serbia historically close to Russia, Vucic has refused to sanction Moscow, a move that has irked the EU and slowed Belgrade's path to joining the bloc.
Zelensky -- who has toured much of the world since Russia's 2022 invasion seeking support -- has not visited Serbia since he became president in 2019.
Although heavily dependent on cheap Russian gas and one of the rare European leaders to still visit Moscow, Vucic has also supplied non-military aid to Kyiv.
The Kremlin has accused Serbian firms of selling munitions to Ukraine, a claim Vucic has repeatedly denied.
Vucic went to Ukraine for a regional summit last year and visited Kyiv this year. He has promised assistance to Ukraine but avoided signing a formal declaration of support in the war.
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