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A Russian missile struck a five-story apartment building overnight in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown of Kryviy Rih, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens amid reports that Ukraine's army was gaining ground after launching its long-awaited counteroffensive.

The adminstration of the city in Dnipropetrovsk region has declared a day of mourning for the victims.

"A day of mourning has been announced in Kryvyi Rih for tomorrow," Kryviy Rih Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said on Telegram on June 13 after the overnight barrage of missiles.

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Vilkul said that Russian missiles only hit civilian and infrastructure objectives.

"The six rockets did not hit any military targets -- [they hit] one apartment building and a storage warehouse."

Zelenskiy condemned the attack, saying on Telegram that "terrorists will never be forgiven."

As an air-raid alert was declared for most of Ukraine. The Ukrainian capital's military administration reported that Kyiv came under fire as well, but all missiles were shot down. There were no reports of any casualties in Kyiv.

Separately, Ukraine's air defense system said it had managed to shoot down 10 out of 15 incoming Russian missiles, as well as one Iranian-made drone during the attack.

The latest wave of Russian strikes came as Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive appeared to be gaining some momentum, with the military saying that seven settlements had been liberated in the southern and eastern regions of the country and further advances had been made in Bakhmut amid heavy fighting.

"Both defensive and offensive fierce fighting is ongoing in the east and south of our nation. We have certain gains, implementing our plans, moving forward," said Valeriy Zaluzhniy, commander in chief of Ukrainian forces.

At least 10 people were killed and 25 injured in an overnight Russian missile strike on a five-story apartment building in the city of Kryviy Rih in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on June 13.

In the area of Bakhmut, the Donetsk city that has been the theater of the war's longest and most brutal battle so far, Ukrainian forces conducted both defensive and offensive actions over the past 24 hours, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, General Oleksandr Syrskiy said on June 13.

"Our forces continue the defense operation on the Bakhmut front. Our soldiers are [also] advancing on the flanks, where the enemy is losing positions," he wrote on Telegram.

"The national flag is flying over [the village of] Storozhove again, and this will be the case with every settlement until we liberate all Ukrainian land," the Ukrainian forces' press center reported in a message accompanied by a video showing Ukrainian soldiers patrolling the village.

Ukraine on June 11 said three Donetsk villages -- Makarivka, Neskuchne, and Blahodatne -- had been retaken by Kyiv's forces.

Later, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said the villages of Lobkove, Levadne, and Novodarivka in the southeastern Zaporizhzhya region had been taken, although Russian officials said Ukrainian forces had been repelled in some of those areas.

The claims could not be independently confirmed.

WATCH: A Russian missile struck a five-story apartment building in the early hours of June 13 in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown of Kryviy Rih, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens.

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Moscow, which has vehemently denied targeting civilian infrastructure despite dozens of attacks that have hit hospitals, apartments, cultural spaces and other nonmilitary structures, has not acknowledged any Ukrainian gains.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow on June 13 posted a video showing what it claims are captured German-made Leopard tanks and U.S.-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles that had been used by Ukrainian forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the counteroffensive was failing and Ukraine was suffering losses 10 times higher than Moscow's.

"Their losses are approaching a level that could be described as catastrophic," Putin said during a meeting in the Kremlin with Russian journalists and bloggers covering the conflict.

Putin, however, conceded that Russian forces were suffering from depleted stockpiles of some military equipment.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been complicated by the bursting on June 6 of the Russian-controlled Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River.

Kyiv has accused Moscow of mining the dam and deliberately causing its destruction to flood the Kherson region in the south and slow down its counteroffensive.

Ukraine said 10 people were killed in the region by the floods resulting from the dam breach and that 41 people remained missing.

On the Russian-occupied side of Kherson region, the death toll has risen to 17, the Moscow-installed head of the regional government, Andrei Alekseyenko, said on social media. Russia has blamed Kyiv for the dam breach.

The United Nations has warned of catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the dam breach and resulting flooding.

"It is almost inevitable that we are going to see huge, huge problems in harvesting and sowing for the next harvest. And so what we are going to see is a huge impact on global food security -- that's what's going to happen," UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told the BBC on June 13.

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