Sept 30 (Reuters) - Russian air strikes killed three, including a child, and injured another seven people in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Wednesday, officials said.
The attack has killed two and injured four in the capital, Kyiv City Military Administration said on Telegram, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires broke out, affecting private houses along with a store and a warehouse.
A Reuters witness heard explosions in the city.
Tymur Tkachenko, Kyiv regional governor, writing on Telegram, said that a Russian missile and a drone strike killed a child and injured three more people in the area, also damaging infrastructure facilities, houses, warehouses and cars.
Ukraine’s neighbours, European Union and NATO members Romania and Poland, have both scrambled military jets to protect their airspaces amid Russian attacks on Ukraine, according to defence ministry and armed forces statements on X.
Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Samara region, an oil producing and refining hub some 1,100 km (684 miles) by road southeast from Moscow, has damaged private houses, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said on social media platform VK.
Reuters could not immediately independently verify the reports.
(Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Michael Perry)
