Russian strikes kill 4 in Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia regions

Russian strikes killed 4 people in Ukraine's Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia regions overnight into Tuesday, Ukrainian authorities said, according to Franceinfo and BFMTV.

Three people were killed and 6 others wounded when a Russian attack hit a building housing production infrastructure and a warehouse in Obukhiv, south of Kyiv, setting it on fire, emergency services said on Telegram. The attack set the building ablaze overnight, requiring an extended response from firefighters before the blaze was brought under control and extinguished; clean-up work at the site is continuing, they said.

In the south-east of the country, one person was killed and 5 wounded in Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding region, said Ivan Fedorov, head of the local military administration, in a Telegram post. Fedorov did not specify what was hit in the strikes on the city and region.

Russia's defence ministry said separately it had hit three commercial vessels at the Ukrainian port of Reni and a fourth vessel sailing towards Odesa, along with two supply hubs in the Volyn region and the city of Khmelnytskyi, Greek outlet Newsbomb reported. The ministry said the vessels and supply facilities it targeted were being used for military purposes, a claim Ukraine has not confirmed.

The strikes came on the night of Monday 19 into Tuesday 20 October, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepared to travel to Norway for talks on the war. The Norwegian government said Zelensky had asked Norway and Finland to organise a meeting at a critical moment for Ukraine, and that Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Finnish President Alexander Stubb would both take part in the talks, BFMTV reported.