Russian strikes kill 3 in Ukraine

KYIV: Russia struck areas of eastern and southern Ukraine with artillery and missiles on Friday and Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding four others, officials said. The strikes come as both sides prepare for a gruelling winter of fighting. Russia fired hundreds of shells into Ukrainian controlled parts of Kherson region in the south on Friday and killed one, local governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. “In separate attacks, the head of Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region said Russia fired a missile at a group of dachas, a type of cottage, in Kryvyi Rig, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown, killing a 60-year-old man.