Mother and young girl among dead in latest Russian strikes on Kyiv

The grieving husband of a woman killed during Russian missile strikes on Kyiv overnight into Thursday (June 1) is saying that they had tried to get to their local bomb shelter during the attacks, but no one could open the door.

There were women and children trying to get in, he says, when debris from a missile fell around them.

Authorities say several people were killed in the incident including a young girl and her mother -- the 18th such attack by Russia on the city since the start of May. Russia has increased its missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in recent weeks ahead of the expected counteroffensive from Ukrainian forces.

In this attack, the Ukrainian military says Russia used 10 missiles and all of them were shot down, but the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, says a fragment caused the deaths.

"For weeks now Russia has been sending kamikaze drones and missiles to our hometown and a lot of buildings are destroyed. We have a big number of people who have injuries and of course, people are very angry. People are angry. It is not the war, it is genocide against Ukraine, against Ukrainian people from Russia."

Russia has accused Ukraine's' forces of increasing their own shelling on border regions in recent weeks, including wounding eight people Thursday.

Meanwhile, as fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary organization says his fighters will finally leave the ruins of the city of Bakhmut on June 5, after handing control of it to Russian government troops.

This video was taken during nighttime training drills. The pullout began on May 25 and was originally slated for completion by June 1.

Prigozhin says the mercenaries will rest for about a month. He also continued his constant criticism of Russia's military brass, saying that his forces shouldn't have to operate alongside what he called "clowns" who turn people into meat.

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[narayankulkarni]

May God rest and peace that mother and young girl souls

[felitaturcorempojo]

Lord help in ukrain peoples and all forces in

[randyjacoby]

We must pray and intercede on the behalf of peace

[randylahey]

That's very tragic but the reality is whatever goes up must come down

[drbendover]

Russians around the world will feel the outrage of what people think:)

[gregorypaul]

If you were to be scared of one thing, it must be the cries of innocent people to God for your crimes against them.

[mr.severeclear]

if zelensky stop this war. this would not happen.

[tonysoprano]

Keep sending drones to Moscow, the heavier their losses in a city like Moscow, will definitely turn people's thinking around.

[PREPFORIT]

I wonder What the Ukraine government is going to re-rename russia with? I guess Ukraine 2 is a good temporary name placeholder.

[shiny_popcorn]

Way to go Russia. Really stuck it to em.

[gbrown]

Genocide!?! These Ukrainians are dramatic. Are they all actors??!! 😂

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[mikhailmik]

💥 Night arrivals in Kyiv filmed by surveillance cameras
Presumably, Geran-2 kamikaze drones and cruise missiles were involved in the attack.
In the first video: Patriot or IRIS-T air defense systems fire missiles at military targets.
On the second video: UAVs have fixed the points of operation of the air defense system and are raiding the places of shots. One of the damaged air defense systems malfunctions and fires a missile that flew straight to the city of Kyiv. The explosion occurs at the site of the launcher of the air defense system and the missiles that flew off the burning air defense system in residential areas. And then they say where the destruction in the houses comes from.

[richardsanders]

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