Girl and her mother killed in Russian strikes as Ukraine reports frontline progress

A firefighter works at a site of an apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine July 31, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

KYIV (Reuters) - A 10-year-old girl and her mother were among four civilians killed in a Russian air strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's home town on Monday, officials said, while his forces reported new incremental gains along the front line.

Zelenskiy, who had described Sunday as "a good day, a powerful day" at the front, said Monday's Russian strikes had hit a residential and a university building in Kryvyi Rih, the steel city where he grew up, far from the front line.