Kiev, Sept 22. (dpa/GNA) – Russia fired ballistic missiles at the southern Ukrainian industrial cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad overnight, killing at least four people and wounding six, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Oleksandr Hanzha, said on Telegram on Tuesday.
The casualties occurred in Dnipro, he said, where people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble of a hit industrial facility.
The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed attacks on Ukraine’s metals, chemicals, energy and arms industries, in a Telegram post. It said cruise missiles and combat drones were used in addition to missiles.
In the Ukrainian capital Kiev, air raid alerts sounded several times overnight. Three people were injured in drone attacks, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
A logistics facility caught fire and a five-storey residential building was damaged.
Ukrainian armed forces attacked the refinery in the Russian city of Samara on the Volga River with drones, Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels reported.
A fire broke out at the facility, according to the reports. A drone attack on industrial facilities killed one person and damaged civilian objects, but had otherwise been repelled, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev wrote on Telegram.
Russia has been trying for more than four and a half years to subjugate Ukraine with a large-scale invasion.
Diplomatic efforts to end the war have so far produced no result. They are to be continued today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to speak with US President Donald Trump.