Russian Forces Hit Ukraine's Dnipro, Civilian Dead (Videos)

Russian shelling targeted the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro Friday, killing one civilian, emergency services announced.

Early on Friday, "there were three air strikes on the city, namely hitting a kindergarten, an apartment building and a two-storey shoe factory, starting a fire. One person died," the emergency services said in a statement.

Shelling was also reported Friday in Lutsk, a city in north-western Ukraine.

"Explosions at the airport side," Lutsk mayor Ihor Polishchuk wrote on Facebook.

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In a briefing on Friday, the Russian defense ministry said that its troops targeted airports in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, another western Ukrainian city some 250 kilometres (155 miles) south of Lutsk.

"Military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk have been put out of order," ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

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Meantime, Russian strikes hit near airports in western Ukraine on Friday as the military offensive widened, and invading troops kept up pressure on the capital Kyiv and the besieged port city of Mariupol.

The airstrikes on the Lutsk military airfield left two Ukrainian servicemen dead and six people wounded, according to the head of the surrounding Volyn region, Yuriy Pohulyayko.

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Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv also noted the strikes targeted an airport near Ivano-Frankiivsk, where residents were ordered to shelters after an air raid alert.