By Sergiy Karazy and Valentyn Ogirenko
KYIV (Reuters) – A 4-year-old boy and his 35-year-old father died when debris from a downed Russian weapon fell on the house they lived in near the capital Kiev, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
A 13-year-old child was among those injured in the attack in the Brovary district, in the Kiev region just northeast of the capital’s metropolitan area, Ukraine’s emergency services said on the Telegram messaging app.
Workers were shown, in a video posted by emergency services, clearing brick by brick at night through a pile of construction debris and lifting the body of a child from underneath.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said the house was hit by drone debris, but emergency services said it was missile debris.
“Russia continues to kill people,” Yermak wrote on Telegram, following Ukraine’s wartime practice of not capitalizing Russia’s name. “It is necessary to destroy its military infrastructure, because the enemy does not accept other arguments.”
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia. Kiev and Moscow deny targeting civilians in their attacks in the war, which Russia began in February 2022 and has killed thousands of people and displaced millions of Ukrainians.
(Reporting by Sergiy Karazy and Valentyn Ogirenko; Additional reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar in Kiev; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sandra Maler and William Mallard)