KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with drones and ballistic missiles before dawn Saturday, officials said, killing at least three people in central Kyiv as part of a broader assault.

Air-raid alarms sounded as emergency crews raced to search for the dead and wounded — a grimly familiar routine in a nation that has been battered by relentless Russian bombardments for nearly three years. Moscow called the attack retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, which in recent weeks appear to have intensified.

The Ukrainian air force said that four ballistic missiles and 39 attack drones had been launched in the assault and that two of the ballistic missiles had been shot down in the Kyiv region.

Authorities initially said that four people had been killed, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later revised the death toll to three and said that three others had been wounded in the attack.

— The New York Times