The Ukrainian cities of Kryviy Rih and Mykolayiv have announced a day of mourning in the aftermath of Russian strikes in recent days that killed at least nine civilians, including three children, as Moscow kept up its daily attacks on civilian and energy infrastructure at the onset of winter.
The day of mourning is to be observed on November 13 in the central city of Kryviy Rih, where a 32-year-old woman and her three children -- a 10-year-old, a 2-year-old, and a 2-month-old baby -- were killed in a missile strike that destroyed their five-story apartment building.
The four victims were pulled out of the rubble by rescue workers after an hourslong search, the city's governor, Oleksandr Vilkul, reported early on November 12. Another 14 people, including children, were wounded in the strike.
In the southern city of Mikolayiv, where at least five people were killed by a Russian strike on an apartment building on November 11, Mayor Oleksandr Syenkevych announced a day of mourning on November 12.
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"Today in Mykolaiv, the day of mourning for our citizens, who died as a result of the attack of the Russian invaders on November 11, was declared," Syenkevych said on Telegram.
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In a separate Russian strike on November 12, four people were wounded in the village of Bilenke in Donetsk, Ukraine's Emergency Services reported.
Ukraine's air force, meanwhile, reported that Russia attacked 10 Ukrainian regions -- Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Zaporizhya, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Mykolayiv -- with missiles, glide bombs, and 110 drones.
Air defenses shot down 46 Russian drones, while 60 drones were lost after their navigation systems were jammed by Ukrainian electronic-warfare systems, the air force reported.
Russian officials said that Ukrainian drone strike early on November 12 set a fuel depot on fire in Stary Oskol, a city in Russia's Belgorod region some 100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram that there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Separately, Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 13 Ukrainian drones, nine of them in Belgorod, two in Bryansk, and two in the Kursk region.