At least three people were killed early today in an overnight airstrike by Russian forces in Ukraine, officials said.

THE Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko said at least five areas of the country were targeted by missiles and that three people were killed and eight injured when a skyscraper in the capital Kiev was hit.

“This is the style of terrorists. Russia’s style,” he says in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

In a separate post the head of the Kyiv military administration Serhii Popko said the damage was caused by fragments of a downed missile and that Ukrainian air defenses shot down more than 20 missiles in the capital.

First aid workers were searching through the wreckage, while a hole was visible on one side of the building.

Officials in the Dnipropetrovsk region of southeastern Ukraine also said eight people were injured — two of them children — and buildings were destroyed in the attacks there.

The governor of Serhii Lisak he said that air defense shot down nine missiles and three drones, noting, however, that apartment buildings in the capital of his region, Dnipro, and an infrastructure object, which he did not specify, were hit.

“Not even a military target,” he said separately on Telegram city ​​mayor Boris Filatov.

In the meantime at least three Russian missiles aimed at KharkivUkraine’s second-largest city, one of which hit a gas line and caused a fire, said mayor of Ihor Terekhov. Emergency services have rushed to the scene, he added, without specifying whether there were any casualties.

There were reports of explosions in other cities as well, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.

Moscow began ramping up its regular airstrikes in Ukraine in May as Kiev’s military planned a counteroffensive, now underway, aimed at Ukraine retaking Russian-held territory in the east and south. her.