Close Call: Missile Narrowly Misses Traffic on Kyiv Highway

A missile narrowly missed cars on a busy highway in Kyiv, as Russia launched a pre-dawn barrage on the Ukrainian capital Thursday, killing three people, including a 9-year-old and her mother. Ukraine’s armed forces said they shot down 11 short-range Iskander ballistic missiles during Monday’s surprise daytime attack. The latest onslaught Thursday, which Ukrainian officials said was carried out using short-range Iskander ground-launched missiles, was the highest casualty toll from a single attack on Kyiv over the past month. UN human rights monitors said six children were killed and 34 were wounded last month alone.