Russian attack kills at least three in Ukraine's Kramatorsk, governor says


KYIV, June 3 (Reuters) - ⁠Russian shelling killed at least three civilians ⁠in Ukraine's frontline city of Kramatorsk in ‌the east and Moscow's forces attacked areas near the southeastern city of Dnipro with drones and missiles, officials said on ​Wednesday.

Vadym Filashkin, governor of Donetsk ⁠region, said on ⁠the Telegram app that 11 people had been injured ⁠in ‌the daytime Russian attack on residential buildings in Kramatorsk.

The governor of southeastern Dnipropetrovsk ⁠Region, Oleksandr Hanzha, said there had been ​three Russian ‌strikes near the region's largest city, Dnipro, ⁠injuring eight ​people and triggering a large fire. Three people were in hospital in serious condition.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking ⁠in his nightly video address, ​said Russian forces had struck food storage areas and a postal depot, deploying drones and missiles.

Photographs posted ⁠online showed several buildings ablaze and billowing smoke engulfing the surrounding areas. More than 100 firefighters had been deployed.

In the southern city of Kherson, ​an overnight drone attack destroyed ⁠36 apartments in a residential building. Regional Governor ​Oleksandr Prokudin said one person ‌had died in the incident.

(Reporting ​by Yuliia Dysa, Olena Harmash; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne, Ron Popeski and Sanjeev Miglani)

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