By Sergiy Karazy and Valentyn Ogirenko

KIEV (Reuters) – A four-year-old boy and his 35-year-old father died when debris from a fired Russian weapon fell on the house where they lived near the capital Kiev, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.

A 13-year-old child was among those injured in the attack in the Brovary district of the Kyiv region, northeast of the Kyiv metropolitan area, Ukrainian emergency services said via the messaging app Telegram.

A video posted by emergency services shows workers clearing away a pile of rubble brick by brick at night and uncovering the body of a child underneath.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said the house was hit by drone debris. However, emergency services spoke of rocket debris.

“Russia continues to kill people,” Yermak posted on Telegram, following Ukraine’s wartime practice of not capitalizing the Russian name. “It is necessary to destroy the military infrastructure, because the enemy does not accept any other arguments.”

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia. Kyiv and Moscow deny that their attacks were aimed at civilians in the war that Russia started in February 2022 and in which thousands of people were killed and millions of Ukrainians displaced.

(Reporting by Sergiy Karazy and Valentyn Ogirenko; additional reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sandra Maler and William Mallard)