Russia says Ukrainian strike with US-supplied missiles killed six people

Russian President Vladimir Putin with acting governor of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein earlier in December (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A Ukrainian attack on Friday on a town in Russia’s Kursk border region using US-supplied missiles killed six people, including a child, a senior local official said.

The attack came hours after Ukrainian authorities said a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv killed at least one person and wounded 13.