<p>Russian shelling on Friday killed three people in two separate incidents in the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk and Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said.</p>.<p>In the east of the country, Russian shelling killed two civilians in the last major city under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk region.</p>.<p>"New attack on Kramatorsk... two civilians dead and 13 wounded," regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Facebook, calling for remaining residents to evacuate.</p>.<p>"The bombardment has damaged at least 20 buildings and a fire has broken out."</p>.<p>In the southeast, Russian shelling on Zaporizhzhia killed one woman and wounded two others, local official Anatoli Kurtev said.</p>.<p>Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced from their homes since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour in late February.</p>.<p>Since withdrawing its troops from areas around the capital Kyiv in late March, Russia has focused its attention on the east and south of the country.</p>.<p>But Ukrainian forces in recent weeks have been clawing back territory in the southern Kherson region, which borders the Crimea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.</p>.<p>Russian forces seized the provincial capital of the same name on March 3, the first major city to fall to Moscow since the start of the invasion on February 24.</p>.<p>An official in the region, Sergi Khlan, said on Facebook that the last bridge being used by Russian forces to transport military equipment had been "destroyed".</p>.<p>The Ukrainian defence ministry on Friday evening said Russia had achieved "partial successes" in the Bakhmut area, on the road towards Kramatorsk.</p>.<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region.</p>.<p>But Ukraine estimates there are still hundreds of thousands of civilians left in the eastern territories not yet occupied by Russia, among them many of the elderly.</p>.<p>Deadly Russian strikes have repeatedly hit Kramatorsk since Russia invaded.</p>.<p>In April, a rocket attack on the city's train station killed at least 57 civilians as they waited on the platform to be evacuated west to safety.</p>
<p>Russian shelling on Friday killed three people in two separate incidents in the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk and Zaporizhzhia, local authorities said.</p>.<p>In the east of the country, Russian shelling killed two civilians in the last major city under Ukrainian control in the Donetsk region.</p>.<p>"New attack on Kramatorsk... two civilians dead and 13 wounded," regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Facebook, calling for remaining residents to evacuate.</p>.<p>"The bombardment has damaged at least 20 buildings and a fire has broken out."</p>.<p>In the southeast, Russian shelling on Zaporizhzhia killed one woman and wounded two others, local official Anatoli Kurtev said.</p>.<p>Thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced from their homes since Russia invaded its pro-Western neighbour in late February.</p>.<p>Since withdrawing its troops from areas around the capital Kyiv in late March, Russia has focused its attention on the east and south of the country.</p>.<p>But Ukrainian forces in recent weeks have been clawing back territory in the southern Kherson region, which borders the Crimea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014.</p>.<p>Russian forces seized the provincial capital of the same name on March 3, the first major city to fall to Moscow since the start of the invasion on February 24.</p>.<p>An official in the region, Sergi Khlan, said on Facebook that the last bridge being used by Russian forces to transport military equipment had been "destroyed".</p>.<p>The Ukrainian defence ministry on Friday evening said Russia had achieved "partial successes" in the Bakhmut area, on the road towards Kramatorsk.</p>.<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region.</p>.<p>But Ukraine estimates there are still hundreds of thousands of civilians left in the eastern territories not yet occupied by Russia, among them many of the elderly.</p>.<p>Deadly Russian strikes have repeatedly hit Kramatorsk since Russia invaded.</p>.<p>In April, a rocket attack on the city's train station killed at least 57 civilians as they waited on the platform to be evacuated west to safety.</p>