Photograph: Kateryna Klochko/EPAAt least three civilians have been killed and others wounded across Ukraine as Russian forces continued to shell frontline areas and other parts of the country, local Ukrainian officials reported. Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov later told reporters that Russian forces destroyed the Ukrainian military’s fuel and ammunition depots near Kryvyi Rih’s local airport. In Ukraine’s frontline Kherson region to the south, one civilian was killed and another wounded as Russian forces launched “mass shelling” attacks, governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Saturday. Avdiivka has been fiercely contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces over the past weeks as Kyiv’s forces try to hold off waves of Russian attacks. Mr Moroz said that exploding drones, missiles, mortars and artillery shells fired by Russian troops also struck other parts of the province.

Source: The Irish Times October 21, 2023 19:38 UTC