KYIV, 12, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes killed at least four people and 
wounded almost 60 across Ukraine on Saturday, Kyiv said, as Moscow steps up 
attacks ahead of another winter of war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country has been "under 
almost constant attack since last night", calling for an adequate reaction 
from allies.

US envoys visited both Moscow and Kyiv last week but announced no 
breakthrough in talks to end Russia's dragging invasion, now in its fifth 
year.

Ukrainian officials said two people were killed in the southern Zaporizhzhia 
region.

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal said two others were also killed at its plant in the 
central city of Kryvyi Rig.

"ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rig reports that our plant was struck by a missile from 
the aggressor country last night," the global steel giant's subsidiary said 
in a statement on Telegram, adding that two bodies had been found.

"We emphasise our plant is a civilian facility in the mining and 
metallurgical industry, and we strongly condemn these insidious enemy 
attacks," the company went on, saying production facilities had also been 
damaged.

Zelensky said a Russian strike on an apartment building in Odesa wounded 37 
people, with rescue teams searching for two missing people.

He also said Moscow struck a "hotel in Chornomorsk", also in the Odesa 
region, with 11 people wounded.

Others were wounded in the Kryvyi Rig and the Kyiv regions, Zelensky said.

"Ten regions came under Russian attack last night, and Russian attack drones 
are still flying over many of them," he said.

Russia has intensified strikes since the summer.

In Zaporizhzhia, where two people died, a strike destroyed a house.

"It was absolute terror," Lyudmila, a 56-year-old resident, told AFP.

The attacks come after a deadly summer, with the UN warning of a major rise 
in civilian casualties in the war.

Kyiv has also upped its retaliatory strikes inside Russia.

Zelensky said Ukraine had struck "chemical enterprises" in the Perm region, 
in Russia's Urals, and the central Samara region.

He said that Ukrainian strikes this week had destroyed a plane and two 
helicopters in the southern Krasnodar and Rostov regions.

"The war must hit home. This is important," Zelensky said.