A Russ­ian mis­sile at­tack Fri­day on Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy’s home­town in cen­tral Ukraine killed one po­lice­man and in­jured at least 52 oth­ers, emer­gency of­fi­cials said, while an­oth­er at­tack in the south­ern Kher­son re­gion killed three peo­ple.

The strikes were among mul­ti­ple Russ­ian at­tacks across the coun­try overnight, of­fi­cials said. Mean­while, Moscow is try­ing to strength­en its po­si­tion po­lit­i­cal­ly with lo­cal elec­tions in ar­eas it has il­le­gal­ly an­nexed, in­clud­ing some it still does not con­trol. Ukraine’s For­eign Min­istry said in a state­ment that it does not rec­og­nize the “fake elec­tions.”

The strikes came days af­ter 16 peo­ple were killed in a Russ­ian at­tack on a mar­ket in east­ern Ukraine and drone de­bris was found in Ro­ma­nia . That sparked fears among lo­cal res­i­dents that the war could spread in­to the NA­TO-mem­ber coun­try bor­der­ing Ukraine.

Ten build­ings were dam­aged in the at­tack on Ze­len­skyy’s home­town of Kryvyi Rih Fri­day. Three peo­ple pulled from the rub­ble were in se­ri­ous con­di­tion, ac­cord­ing to Ihor Kly­menko, Ukraine’s min­is­ter of In­ter­nal Af­fairs. Pho­tos post­ed by Kly­menko on Telegram showed a build­ing on fire, burnt tim­bers and emer­gency ser­vices evac­u­at­ing the in­jured.

Three peo­ple were al­so killed Fri­day af­ter a Russ­ian bomb struck the vil­lage of Odradokami­an­ka in the Kher­son re­gion of south­ern Ukraine, Kly­menko said.

Al­so on Fri­day, a fu­ner­al was be­ing held for an 18-year-old who was among 16 peo­ple killed Wednes­day in a Russ­ian at­tack on a mar­ket in Kos­tiantyniv­ka in Ukraine’s east­ern Donet­sk re­gion. The at­tack, which wound­ed 33 oth­ers, turned the mar­ket in­to a fiery, black­ened ru­in and over­shad­owed a two-day vis­it by U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Antony Blinken aimed at as­sess­ing Ukraine’s three-month-old coun­terof­fen­sive. Blinken’s vis­it sig­naled on­go­ing U.S. sup­port with the an­nounce­ment of an ad­di­tion­al $1 bil­lion in aid.

Mean­while, Rus­sia is hold­ing lo­cal elec­tions in the part of the Kher­son re­gion it con­trols. Lo­cal elec­tions are al­so be­ing held in the Donet­sk, Luhan­sk and Za­por­izhzhia re­gions. In Kher­son, lo­cal res­i­dents and Ukrain­ian ac­tivists say elec­tion poll work­ers have made house calls ac­com­pa­nied by armed sol­diers.

Ukraine has dis­missed the elec­tions, call­ing on its al­lies to con­demn Rus­sia’s ac­tions and urg­ing them not to rec­og­nize any ad­min­is­tra­tion cre­at­ed as a re­sult of the votes.

The war con­tin­ued to raise dif­fi­cult ques­tions for oth­er na­tions try­ing to man­age the war’s fall­out on food se­cu­ri­ty, in­fla­tion and oth­er mat­ters.

Britain an­nounced Fri­day it will host a glob­al food se­cu­ri­ty sum­mit in No­vem­ber in re­sponse to Rus­sia’s with­draw­al of a Black Sea grain deal and at­tacks on Ukraine’s grain sup­ply.

The an­nounce­ment came as British Prime Min­is­ter Rishi Sunak ar­rived in In­dia for a Group of 20 sum­mit, where he hopes to mar­shal in­ter­na­tion­al re­sources to coun­ter­act the war’s im­pact on the glob­al food sup­ply.

Sunak’s gov­ern­ment said Roy­al Air Force air­craft will fly over the Black Sea as part of ef­forts to de­ter Rus­sia from strik­ing car­go ships trans­port­ing grain from Ukraine.

“We will use our in­tel­li­gence, sur­veil­lance, and re­con­nais­sance to mon­i­tor Russ­ian ac­tiv­i­ty in the Black Sea, call out Rus­sia if we see warn­ing signs that they are prepar­ing at­tacks on civil­ian ship­ping or in­fra­struc­ture in the Black Sea, and at­tribute at­tacks to pre­vent false-flag claims that seek to de­flect blame from Rus­sia,” the U.K. gov­ern­ment said.

As­so­ci­at­ed Press writer Jill Law­less in Lon­don con­tributed to this re­port.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) —