KYIV, Ukraine, 28 Aug (AP) \u2014 A Russian missile slammed into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s home city on Wednesday, local authorities said, just as Kryvyi Rih was observing an official day of mourning for an attack the previous day that killed four civilians at a hotel.<\/p>\n
The latest attack on the city struck civilian infrastructure, wounding eight people, local administration head Oleksandr Vilkul said on social media.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s attack, which also wounded five people, was part of a barrage of dozens of missiles and drones across Ukraine that Russia launched for a second consecutive day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Kryvyi Rih is in mourning, the enemy attacks again. And it once again aims at civilians,\u201d regional head Serhii Lysak said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Russia stepped up its bombing of Ukraine on Monday, firing more than 100 missiles and a similar number of drones in its biggest onslaught in weeks.<\/p>\n
The intensified bombing campaign coincided with what could prove to be a decisive period of the war, which Russia launched on Feb. 24, 2022.<\/p>\n
Russian forces have been driving deeper into Ukraine\u2019s partly occupied eastern Donetsk region, whose total capture is one of the Kremlin\u2019s primary ambitions. Russia\u2019s army is closing in on Pokrovsk, a critical logistics hub for the Ukrainian defense in the area.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Ukraine has sent its forces into Russia\u2019s Kursk region in recent weeks in the largest incursion onto Russian soil since World War II. The move is in part an effort to force Russia to draw troops away from the Donetsk front.<\/p>\n
At the hotel in Kryvyi Rih, rescuers on Wednesday found a final body under the rubble. The rescue operation then ended.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ukraine claimed its anti-aircraft defenses destroyed a Russian Su-25 jet in the Donetsk region.<\/p>\n
Ukraine also kept up its long-range drone attacks on Russia\u2019s rear logistical areas.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence claimed responsibility for an attack on an oil depot in Russia\u2019s Rostov region, and in the first known Ukrainian attack on Russia\u2019s Kirov region, Kirov governor Alexander Sokolov said three Ukrainian drones fell near an oil depot there. The region is about 950 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) northeast of the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n
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