Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks overnight, with Russian officials saying yesterday that Ukrainian strikes had killed one person in the Belgorod border region.

Russian strikes overnight on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa killed four people, including a teenage girl, and wounded 10 more, the regional governor said yesterday.

Russia unleashed an overnight drone attack across Ukraine targeting the capital Kyiv and hitting infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.

Ukrainian officials have warned of possible water supply problems in the eastern Donetsk region, after heavy Russian aerial strikes.

Russian forces hit a medical center in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine yesterday morning then struck again as the building was being evacuated, killing nine people and injuring 20 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky of refusing to "make a deal" to end his country's war with Russia

Ukrainian shelling killed three people, including a child, in a Russian border village, the provincial governor said yesterday..Border settlements in both Russia and Ukraine have been subjected to near daily shelling and drone attacks since Moscow launched its full-scale military offensive

A Russian strike on a residential neighbourhood in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv wounded 21 people including three minors, the regional governor said yesterday.

Ukraine said yesterday it had successfully struck two Russian weapons depots in the southern Krasnodar and western Tver regions, with Moscow announcing more than 1,000 evacuations.

The BBC and the independent Russian news site Mediazona said yesterday they had documented the deaths of around 70,000 Russian soldiers since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow and Kyiv swapped 103 prisoners of war each yesterday in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates, a rare moment of coordination between the two warring sides as Russia pushes ahead in east Ukraine.

The leaders of Britain and the United States was set to meet in Washington on whether to let Kyiv fire Western-provided long-range missiles into Russia, an option that has sent tensions soaring with Moscow.

Ukraine’s security services yesterday said they had struck a Russian ammunition factory in a border region, as Moscow’s forces claimed yet another advance on the battlefield.

Aerial strikes on Russian and Ukrainian border cities killed at least a dozen people on Friday, bombardments that came as Kyiv dismissed its air force commander in a major military shake-up.

Russian strikes killed at least four people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, including a 14-year-old girl, officials said yesterday.

Ukraine conducted a drone attack on Russia’s Marinovka military airfield in the southern Russian region of Volgograd, striking a storage site for fuel and glide bombs, a security source in Kyiv said yesterday.

A total of 1,940 attacks on healthcare services in Ukraine have been registered since the start of Russia’s offensive in February 2022, the European branch of the World Health Organization said yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday said his forces were “strengthening” their positions in Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv has been mounting a major ground offensive for more than 11 days.

Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit that was armed with weapons from Nato countries in Russia’s western Kursk region, the RIA state-run media agency reported yesterday, citing unidentified security sources.

Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia yesterday, also launching a significant air attack on a Russian airfield hundreds of kilometres behind the front lines.