Russian strikes in the south of the country leave two dead and two injured

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rig was hit. Several Russian strikes have left at least two dead and two injured in southern Ukraine over the past twenty-four hours, Ukrainian authorities announced on Saturday October 21. According to police, one of the victims died in the shelling of a residential area of ​​the city, which is located in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

It is also there that a 57-year-old woman was injured by a shrapnel and is in serious condition, the presidential administration said. A fire was also caused during the night by a strike on an industrial complex, police said, adding that the fire had been extinguished. “Essential infrastructure is damaged”added the presidential administration, referring to this fire.

Further south still, in the Kherson region, a series of strikes has left one dead and one injured since Friday morning, according to the same source. The presidential administration said that several localities in the Donetsk region were also “under fire from the Russians”, including Avdiïvka. This industrial city, located on the front line since 2014, has been the scene of violent fighting since mid-October, with the Russian army having launched several assaults.