Russian missiles strike Kyiv for first time in three weeks

Residential buildings and a kindergarten hit in centre of Ukrainian capital before planned Nato summit on Tuesday

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Kyiv was hit by four Russian missile strikes early on Sunday morning for the first time in three weeks, during which life had been slowly returning to the Ukrainian capital in the relative calm.

Columns of smoke rose over the central Shevchenkivskyi district, home to a cluster of universities, restaurants and art galleries at 6.22am. Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said two residential buildings had been hit in what he called an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians" before a Nato summit in Madrid beginning on Tuesday.