Russia launched an intense drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing a mother and her son in the capital, amid faltering U.S.-backed attempts to broker a pause in the fighting.

An air raid alert had sounded in Kyiv a few hours earlier but he had decided to stay at home and go ahead with it regardless rather than head for a shelter. "Then an explosion," the retired photographer told the Kyiv Independent later that day,

Sergei Tokarev, head of the military medical commission in the occupied peninsula died from gunshot wounds, according to reports.

In Kyiv, a victim was hospitalized after a night attack, the explosive part of the downed drone worked with a delay. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported this

In our news wrap Wednesday, Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted flights at Moscow's main airports for a third day, Russian strikes on Ukraine killed two people in Kyiv, hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 92 people and for the second time in two weeks,