WORLD: RUSSIAN STRIKES THREE, WOUND FOUR IN UKRAINE
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At least three people were killed and four more were injured when Russia launched artillery and missile strikes on parts of eastern and southern Ukraine on Friday and Saturday, according to officials.
The strikes take place as Russia attempts to quell a Ukrainian counteroffensive aimed at regaining captured territory and as both sides get ready for a hard winter of fighting.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the local governor, reported that on Friday, Russia launched hundreds of shells into areas of the Kherson region in the south that are under Ukrainian authority.
“The Russian military hit residential areas of the region’s settlements. As a result of Russian aggression, one person was killed and one more was wounded,” he said Saturday morning.
A woman was injured and a man aged 60 was killed after a Russian missile was fired at a group of dachas, or cottages, in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s birthplace of Kryvyi Rig, according to the leader of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region.
“She is in a serious condition in hospital. The attack caused a fire, which rescuers have already extinguished,” Dnipropetrovsk governor Sergiy Lysak said Friday evening.
He later said on Saturday that Russian artillery strikes on Nikopol, a city of about 100,000 people on the river Dnipro, had killed one person.
“The enemy has once again fired on peaceful Nikopol with heavy artillery. Unfortunately, a man died as a result of the attack,” Nikopol mayor Oleksandr Sayuk said.
At least two people were injured on Friday by Russian shelling in Kupyansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine and strikes on Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, according to officials.
In recent weeks, there has been an increase in fighting and shelling in and around Avdiivka as Russia attempts to encircle and take control of the strategically significant town.
AFP
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