One Dead In Russian Attacks On Southern Ukraine

Ukraine says it shot down a dozen Iranian-made Shahed attack drones overnight on October 29-30. (file photo)

A Russian missile attack on a ship-repair plant in the Odesa region on October 30 injured four employees and damaged the administrative building and plant equipment, the regional prosecutor's office announced.

Regional Governor Oleh Kiper initially said two employees had been injured in the missile strike, but the later report said four employees "received injuries of varying degrees of severity" and two of them were hospitalized.

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Kiper's earlier statement said the administrative building and the company's equipment were damaged in a fire that broke out as a result of the attack.

Police have opened an investigation into a possible violation of the laws and customs of war, the prosecutor's office said.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said earlier on October 30 that Russian troops launched air strikes overnight against Ukraine using 12 Shahed attack drones, all of which "were destroyed by antiaircraft defenses."

The General Staff added in its daily briefing that over the previous 24 hours about 60 combat clashes had taken place on the front line in Kupyansk, Lymansk, Avdiyivka, Marinsk, Shakhtarsk, and Zaporizhzhya.

"As a result of the...attacks, unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population," the General Staff said.

One of the deaths occurred in Kherson, the head of the city's military administration, Roman Mrochko, said.

"As of this hour, there are nine wounded and one dead in the Kherson city-territorial community! The Russian army attacked Kherson several times a day from the temporarily occupied left bank. Damages were recorded, in particular, in the Dnipro district of the city," Mrochko said on Telegram.

Another strike hit a bus, a critical infrastructure facility, and cemetery, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram.

"As of now, we know about seven victims as a result of the shelling of a [bus] in Kherson. Two men and five women," Prokudin said, adding that some of them had sustained severe injuries.

In Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on October 30 received a delegation of members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

According to the presidential press service, Zelenskiy and the representatives discussed continuing U.S. support to Ukraine with emphasis on the importance of U.S. President Joe Biden's budget request, which includes tens of billions of dollars of aid for the country as it battles invading Russian forces.

"From the first days of the large-scale invasion, the support of the United States remains unchanged. It has helped to unite the world around Ukraine. Continuation of such assistance is a guarantee of our country's success in the fight against Russian aggression," Zelenskiy said.

Zelenskiy also informed the U.S. delegation about the situation on the front lines and the priority needs of the defense forces of Ukraine.