The governor says a strike in Ukraine's Zaporizhia region sets a service station on fire, killing at least 10 people.
The death toll from the Russian invasion of Ukraine the southeastern region of Zaporizhia has risen to at least 10, the local governor says.
Ivan Fedorov said Friday's strike set fire to a car garage and a service station. He shared images and videos on Telegram showing a fire burning with debris across a street.
Fedorov also said two children, aged four and 11, were among the injured.
The attack comes after weeks of escalation in the nearly three-year war in Ukraine, where Moscow has stepped up its strikes at the start of winter.
The Russian military also struck the main Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, the local governor said, killing at least two people.
The state emergency services agency said at least 16 others were injured, including a child, as rescuers searched for one missing person.
“A three-story building was destroyed, residential buildings and cars were damaged,” the group said on Telegram.
Kryvyi Rih, which is about 80km (50 miles) from the front lines in southern Ukraine, has been frequently targeted by Russian airstrikes since the country invaded its neighbor in 2022.
Friday's attacks came as Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, where the two leaders signed a mutual defense agreement.
Speaking to Lukashenko, Putin emphasized the new agreement including the use of tactical Russian nuclear weapons sent to Belarus in response to an attack.
Russia could also use its new hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in Belarus in 2025 as it begins to increase production, the Russian president said.
Moscow unveiled its nuclear weapon last month in a strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, sharply escalating tensions.
“As for the ability to use, to put it quickly, such an amazing weapon as Oreshnik on the territory of Belarus,… it will be possible, I think, in the second half of the next year,” Putin said Friday.
Russia had already installed tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in 2023.
Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly said that those weapons sent to Belarus remain under Moscow's control, but Belarus Security Council secretary Alexander Volfovich said Friday that their use would require Lukashenko's approval.
On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the recent deployment of the Oreshnik medium-range missile in Ukraine was an attempt to make the West understand that Moscow was ready to use “any means” to stop the issue.
Oreshnik's launch on November 21 followed Ukraine carried out strikes against Russian military facilities in the Bryansk and Kursk regions with Western-supplied weapons.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russia's use of Oreshnik “the latest bout of Russian madness” and appealed to allies for updated air defense systems to meet the new threat.
Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5 – five times the speed of sound – and can maneuver mid-flight, making them more difficult to track and intercept.
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