Russian strikes near Ukrainian capital kill three, including child

Attack comes as US Senate passes new Russia-sanctions" class="entity-link entity-topic" data-entity-id="132193" data-entity-type="topic">Russia sanctions and Kyiv pleads for more interceptors.Russian strikes have killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding Kyiv, according to a Ukrainian official, as explosions rocked the capital and fires broke out across parts of the city.The strikes hit three locations in the Boryspil district, just outside Kyiv, on Saturday, according to Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the regional administration. Three more people were wounded.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Is the conflict between Russia and Ukraine deepening?list 2 of 3Several killed in attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv hits Russian e-commerce giantlist 3 of 3US Senate passes sweeping Russian energy sanctions bill amid Ukraine warend of listThe attack was the latest in a Russian bombardment that Ukraine’s depleted air defences have been increasingly unable to stop, exposing a widening gap between Russia’s ability to attack Ukrainian cities and Kyiv’s ability to thwart those attacks.Fires broke out in two districts of the capital after an air raid alert sounded early on Saturday. Residents in central Kyiv described powerful explosions shaking buildings nearby.Russian ballistic missiles travel at several times the speed of sound and dive towards their targets so steeply that Ukrainian defenders often have only seconds to respond.Patriot air defence systems, supplied by the United States, remain the only weapons in Ukraine’s arsenal able to reliably intercept them. Officials in Kyiv have said they lack anywhere near enough batteries or interceptors to shield their cities properly.Earlier this week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine received only a third as many air-defence missiles in the first half of this year as it had during the same period in 2025. He attributed the shortfall to the US-Israel war on Iran, which has drawn down global stockpiles of air defence interceptors.