<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Nine Ukrainians, including four children, were wounded Saturday after Russian forces attacked an apartment block and several houses in the city of Voznesensk, near a key nuclear plant, a regional governor said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aged between three and 17 “all the children are in a serious condition,” Vitaliy Kim, the governor of Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv, said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>He said a girl had lost an eye in the attack.</div><div><br></div><div>Voznesensk is located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the nuclear plant at Pivdennoukrainsk, Ukraine’s second largest, and 70 kilometers (40 miles) from Mykolaiv, the regional capital.</div><div><br></div><div>The strikes hit an apartment building and several homes in the city, which is home to 30,000 people, the emergency services said on Facebook, showing a badly damaged building.</div><div><br></div><div>The region, at the forefront of the war, suffers regular strikes.</div><div><br></div><div>“Voznesensk. The terrorist country called Russia hit a residential building,” presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Telegram.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian army meanwhile said they had downed four Kalibr high-precision sea-launched cruise missiles fired from the Black Sea near the central city of Dnipro.</div><div><br></div><div>Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of Melitopol, a city in the Kherson region which has been occupied by Russia, said the Ukrainian army had bombed a Russian military base in the city.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian army meanwhile reported Russian attacks in the eastern Donetsk region — which has been partially controlled by Russian proxies since 2014 — saying “fighting is continuing.” - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>