A Russian drone yesterday hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, killing five people and wounding 19, officials said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks.
Regional governor Oleksandr Ganja said that three women and two men were killed, adding that a 14-year-old girl was among the wounded and was in a “critical condition.”
Five people were also injured in Kharkiv, near the front line, regional police said.
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The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 286 drones overnight, of which 260 were intercepted.
In the northern Sumy region, 11 people were wounded in strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure overnight, police said.
Images released by Ukrainian emergency services showed a building whose upper floors were engulfed in flames.
Three people were wounded in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, including a baby aged five months and a six-year-old boy, Ganja said.
In Russia, a missile and drone attack on the southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, left one person dead and four seriously wounded in the city of Taganrog, regional governor Yuri Slyussar said.
Three residents and a foreigner were all in critical condition, he said, but did not specify the origin of the attacks.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday arrived in Istanbul for security cooperation talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Ukrainian official said.
Zelenskiy this week signaled he was ready for a truce over the Easter holidays, but the Kremlin said it had not received “clearly formulated” proposals.
He said he had invited a US delegation to Ukraine to relaunch negotiations with Moscow.
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