General charged over Kyiv children's hospital strike shot in Russia
Major General Nikolai Varpakhovich, commander of a heavy bomber division and charged in absentia by Ukraine over the 2024 Okhmatdyt children's hospital strike, was shot twice by a motorbike gunman near Engels airbase and airlifted to Moscow in serious condition.
On September 3, Russian strikes targeting Kyiv and its surrounding region left at least four individuals injured, including a 12-year-old girl. The attack damaged a Coca-Cola plant, causing debris to harm several vehicles and wound people in Kyiv's Darnytsia district, according to local authorities and officials. Four separate air raid alerts were issued in Kyiv overnight as a result of the relentless Russian assaults.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian capital has faced a severe shortage of air defense systems, leaving citizens vulnerable to ballistic missiles and drone attacks. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an overhaul of Ukraine's aerial alert system, dividing alerts into red and yellow levels, with yellow signaling drone threats and red indicating incoming missiles and large-scale combined attacks.
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