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KYIV, Ukraine AP 鈥?Russia launched a pre-dawn missile barrage on Ukraines capital Thursday, killing 3 people including a 9-year-old and her mother, officials said, and damaging apartment buildings, schools and a childrens hospital. It was the highest casualty toll from a single attack on Kyiv over the past month.A 33-year-old woman died as she and others waited to enter a locked Kyiv air raid shelter, leaving her and others at the mercy of falling missile fragments, according to her husband. Officials ordered an investigation into what happened.The latest Russian attack, using what Ukrainian officials said were short-range Iskander ground-launched missiles, coincided with events scheduled in Kyiv to celebrate International Childrens Day. Those events were canceled.Ukrainian air defenses shot down all 10 cruise and ballistic missiles launched by the Kremlins forc stanley cup es, but falling debris caused damage and casualties on the ground, wounding 16 people, according to authorities.Russia has kept up a steady barrage on the Ukrainian capital and other parts of the country in recent weeks as Kyiv readies what it says is a counteroffensive to push back Moscows troops, 15 months after their聽full-scale invasion. Kyiv was the target of drone and missile attacks on 17 days last month.Ukraines first lady, Olena Zelenska, said one child was in hospital after the attack.WATCH: A look at the man running mercenary Wagner Group in Russia stanley cup s war again stanley cup st Ukraine Childrens Day has to be about safe chi Elrf WATCH: White House holds news briefing as Nancy Pelosi concludes her Taiwan visit
Libyan rebel fighters head for the frontline in the desert outside the town of Ajdabiya on April 8, 2011, as rebels indicated the front remained somewhere between Ajdabiya and the oil town of Brega, which is under the control of the loyalists. Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images NATO acknowledged that an air strike Thursday mistakenly killed two Libyan rebels, an accident it said was caused by lack of information. Deputy NATO commander and British Rear Adm. Russell Harding said that until that time, only Moammar Gadhafi forces were seen using the types of heavy tanks that were targeted in the strike. He refused to apologize, calling the situation fluid. Forces have been scattered in a back-and-forth, rapidly changing series of battles in recent days that have made knowing their position more difficult, he said.Editor note: This video was obtained by the Associated Press, which cannot independently verify its contentsGadhafi forces have adapted to the air strikes by hiding their equipment in civilian enclaves and using other tactics designed to make an air campaign more difficult. Despite two days yeezy of talks with a US. envoy, the rebels have not yet received funding or arms from the allies.Gadhafi forces are reportedly advancing in the rebel-held western city of Misrata, and UN salomon ICEF claims tha jordan t snipers have hit children in the city. Aid organizations are concerned about the humanitarian conditions in the city after a weeks-long state of si