A Russian missile struck a school in the town of Nikopol in the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday, killing at least four people, Ukrainian officials said. Debris from a drone downed by anti-aircraft units over southern Russia’s Belgorod region killed two people and injured at least two, the regional governor said on Thursday. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said a house had been destroyed and two bodies, of a man and a woman, had been recovered from under rubble. Russian forces were pressing on with a major push on the key eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka on Wednesday after many months of besieging it, Ukrainian military officials said. The Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had redirected large numbers of troops and equipment to Avdiivka in their largest attack on the town since launching the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Major assaults have been under way since Tuesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukraine’s allies on Wednesday to arm his country to survive the winter. Zelenskiy made a plea for …

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