KYIV, June 15 (Reuters) - Russian missiles hit two industrial facilities in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Thursday, and an elderly woman was killed by Russian fire in the southern Kherson region, local officials said.

Kryvyi Rih mayor Oleksandr Vilkul reported no deaths in the latest attack on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown, but said a 38-year-old man had been wounded when three missiles struck two industrial enterprises overnight.

"The destruction is significant," Vilkul wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

The new attack on Kryvyi Rih followed missile strikes that killed at least 12 people in the city on Tuesday. Russia denies targeting civilians, but Ukrainian officials said none of the buildings hit had any links to the armed forces.

Ukraine's military also reported a new Russian attack on the southern port city of Odesa overnight but said all 18 drones launched by Russia had been shot down.

Authorities in Russia-controlled Crimea also reported an attack overnight, saying they had downed nine Ukrainian drones.

In other incidents, an 80-year-old woman was killed and another person wounded in an attack on the Zelenivka settlement in Kherson in southern Ukraine, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.

Russia's TASS news agency quoted Moscow-installed officials in Russian-occupied territory in the Kherson region, which was hit by flooding after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, as saying a child had been killed by Ukrainian shelling.

One person was also killed in Russian shelling in the past 24 hours in the village of Pereizne in the eastern region of Donetsk, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.

Reuters was unable to verify reports from the battlefield. Both sides have reported heavy fighting in the early stages of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka and Kyiv newsroom; Editing by Michael Perry and Timothy Heritage

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