Symbolic imageChild among four killed near Kyiv as Ukrainian drones hit Ilsky refinery
Russian drones destroyed a family home near Kyiv early on Saturday, killing a three-year-old boy and his grandparents. Ukrainian drones set Russia's Ilsky oil refinery ablaze the same day.
Four people died in Russian attacks on the capital and the surrounding region, local officials told the Associated Press, and the family's house in the Brovary district was reduced to rubble. Three other members of the household and a neighbour were hospitalised. AP reports Kyiv's depleted air defences are struggling; the government puts July's Russian launches at around 9,000 drones and missiles. Koha, citing the BBC, reported three killed and three wounded by ballistic missiles east of Kyiv, per regional military administration head Timur Tkachenko.
Fire at Ilsky put out
Reuters reported the refinery blaze was extinguished. Repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities have caused fuel shortages, AP reports.
Moscow claims hits on two ports
Russia said it struck vessels and military facilities supporting Ukraine at Odesa and Mykolaiv, Reuters reported. The claim is Moscow's alone and unconfirmed.
US envoys expected next week
TASS said US negotiators Witkoff and Kushner may travel to Kyiv and Moscow next week; Bloomberg relayed the report.
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TASS on Sunday carried DPR claims of 24 Ukrainian attacks on Donetsk in a day, wounding two civilians including a child, while its Saturday items covered an explosion in Sumy rather than the Kyiv deaths.