The death toll from a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has doubled to eight, including an infant, the regional governor said Friday.
Thursday's attack on the industrial hub has also wounded 42 people and damaged a hospital.
Zaporizhzhia city has come under increasing Russian aerial bombardments in recent weeks and six people were killed in a strike on an industrial sector of the city earlier this week.
"The number of dead as a result of the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia has increased to 8, including a one-year-old boy. 42 people were injured," governor Ivan Fedorov posted on Telegram.
The previous toll announced by the emergency services on Thursday was four dead, 40 wounded.
Analysts of the Russian invasion have speculated that the Kremlin could launch an offensive on Zaporizhzhia this winter.
The city, which had a pre-war population of more than 700,000 people, lies around 35 kilometres (22 miles) from the nearest Russian positions.
The Kremlin claimed to have annexed the wider Zaporizhzhia region in late 2022 despite not having full military control over it.
Khakiv Strike
At least 25 people were wounded in an overnight Russian strike on an apartment block in Kharkiv, the mayor of Ukraine's second city said Friday.
The 12-storey residential building was struck by a bomb that partially destroyed the first and third floors, Mayor Igor Terekhov wrote on Telegram.
"The number of injured keeps increasing. As of now, there are 25 of them," he added.
Rescue efforts were under way for inhabitants trapped on the third floor.
The Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of "deliberately hitting an apartment block".
"The Russians are also attacking Kyiv with missiles," he added.
Separately, Kyiv's military office said that anti-missile air defences were operating in the capital.
A barrage of drones also struck Odessa and its suburbs in the south of the country, wounding at least two people, the region's governor Oleg Kiper said.
Kyiv was targeted on Thursday by another "massive" Russian drone attack that wounded two people, damaged buildings and sparked fires in several districts, Ukrainian authorities said.
Russia has systematically targeted the capital with drone and missile barrages since the first day of its invasion launched nearly three years ago on February 24, 2022.
Ukrainian authorities have been seeking air defence systems from their allies to fend off Russian aerial attacks.
With AFP
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