Five children among 25 killed as Russia launches deadly strikes across Ukraine

Uman, Ukraine: As Kiev claimed that preparations for a counteroffensive against Moscow's forces were almost complete, Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities on Friday left 26 people dead, including five children. The deadly new attacks included a strike on a residential block in the historic city of Uman in central Ukraine, where Russian cruise missiles killed 23 people - including four children, a young woman and her two-year-old daughter in the central city of Dnipro and a 57-year-old woman in the southern region of Kherson. The barrage of almost two dozen missiles overnight ended a weeks-long pause following the repeated Russian…