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href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/strikes\/\">strikes<\/a> on <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> during the Pope’s funeral. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian attacks did not pause for <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/pope-francis\/\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\">Pope Francis<\/a>’s ceremony, with attacks underway even as the US president reportedly met Zelensky in Rome ahead of the funeral, with at least six regions targeted.<\/p>\n<p>One strike hit a residential building in Kamianske in Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one man and wounding four, including an 11-year-old girl – the latest of evidently deliberate strikes at civilians which terrorised local children.<\/p>\n<p>A resident said: ‘I heard the explosion, ran outside, everything was on fire, many people were screaming. We started to panic and ran to the forest. The children were very scared. Two windows in our house were broken.’<\/p>\n<p>Separately, a video showed a fireball explosion on the outskirts of Dnipro, and Kropyvnytskyi was also hit by drones.<\/p>\n<p>Kharkiv – Ukraine\u2019s second city – was attacked with a boy, 14, wounded from a Shahed drone strike. <\/p>\n<p>Reports said Kyiv region was under siege from drones as Volodymyr Zelensky attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, where he was due to speak to other world leaders over a peace agreement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22977850 lazyload\" alt=\"Residents stand near an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Kamyanske in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine April 26, 2025. 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