Kyiv drone strike kills teen doing homework as Russia intensifies winter attacks

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A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Kyiv killed a 14-year-old boy as he did homework Friday morning, part of intensified attacks ahead of winter. The strike hit between the seventh and tenth floors around 8 a.m. Separate Russian drone attacks in Kyiv killed four more people and injured seven, while a residential fire in Odessa injured ten, including two firefighters. Russia is targeting energy infrastructure and civilian areas to make the fifth war winter unbearable. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced after meeting Donald Trump at the UN that the US will grant Ukraine licenses to produce Patriot air-defense missiles domestically. Ukraine currently lacks both systems and interceptor missiles.


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