Kyiv – Two people, including a four-year-old boy, were killed in a Russian drone and missile attack on the Kiev region on Sunday night. In Russia, the Kursk regional governor said 13 people were injured when a Ukrainian missile fired by Russian air defenses fell on a residential building.

The bodies of a 35-year-old man and his son were found under rubble after rocket fragments fell on a residential area in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. Three other people in the district were also injured in the attack.

The attacks come as Ukraine’s surprise military incursion into Russia’s border region of Kursk enters its sixth day. The border attack, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indirectly acknowledged for the first time on Saturday, is unprecedented as Ukrainian military units were deployed on Russian soil.

The exact objectives of the operation remain unclear and Ukrainian military officials are pursuing a policy of secrecy – presumably to ensure its success.

Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said this was the second time this month that Kyiv had been targeted.

Popko said that the ballistic missiles did not reach the capital, but that suburbs were hit and that drones aimed at the capital were shot down.

In Russia, the Defense Ministry announced that 35 drones were shot down overnight over the Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Oryol regions.

Ukraine has not commented on Sunday’s drone strikes in Russia, but this comes after Ukraine increased the frequency of similar drone attacks in recent weeks, mainly targeting military infrastructure and oil depots.