A 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people were injured — including five children — when a Russian missile struck a residential area of Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro overnight into

Russia said on Thursday it had repelled more cross-border attacks from Ukraine while its aerial assaults on Kyiv killed another three people including a nine-year-old girl and her mother locked out of an air raid shelter.

Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital.

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence has warned Putin of a revenge attack following fresh missile strikes. General Kyrylo Budanov described a wave of attacks on Monday as an attempt to “intimidate us”, adding that Russia would “regret it very soon.”

Russia launched a fresh wave of air strikes against Ukraine early yesterday, striking an airfield in a central region but failing to hit the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities said.

Russia said on Monday its military hit Ukrainian air bases in overnight strikes and Ukrainian forces shelled industrial facilities inside Russia as both sides sought the upper hand ahead of what Kyiv hopes will be a decisive counter-offensive.