A strike on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya on November 5 killed at least six people and wounded another nine, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram, as Russia launched a fresh wave of attacks on Ukrainian cities.
"Six people died and nine were wounded," Fedorov said, adding that a fire broke out at the missile's point of impact. He said the attack targeted an infrastructure object, without giving details.
The city, with a pre-war population of more than 700,000, is located some 55 kilometers northeast of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, that has been under Russian control since shortly after the start of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Earlier in the day, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the Ukrainian capital had been subjected to two waves of Russian drone attacks on the city's northeastern Obolonskiy district and the southern Holosyivskiy district, although it was not immediately clear whether there were casualties or damage.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, two women were wounded by Russian shelling early on November 5, Mayor Ihor Terekhov announced. A third person was wounded in a missile attack on the region's Kapitolivka village.
In recent weeks, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and other cities have been subjected to Russian strikes on an almost daily basis as Ukraine braces for a third winter of war.
During the two previous cold seasons, Russian attacks largely crippled Ukraine's energy infrastructure, causing electricity shortages that added to the hardships of civilians.
Ukraine's air force separately said Odesa, Ukraine's main Black Sea port, had been targeted by two Kinzhal guided missiles that were shot down. Odesa region is Ukraine's main gateway for the country's grain and other produce exports.
The air force said that its air-defense systems also downed 48 of the 79 drones launched by Russia at 8 Ukrainian regions -- Odesa, Kyiv, Sumy, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Khmelnytskiy.
Russia's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its air-defense capabilities destroyed six Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk region.
