Several Ukrainian and Russian civilians were killed in artillery attacks during the night from Thursday to Friday, according to Moscow and Kyiv.
Russia and Ukraine said on Friday that overnight aerial attacks had killed civilians, as both countries launched a wave of artillery and drone fire at each other.
Kyiv said that a Russian drone strike killed two people in the central Ukrainian region of Vinnytsia, and that a shelling attack on the frontline Zaporizhzhia region killed one woman.
Moscow-installed officials said that overnight shelling by Kyiv’s army on the Russian-held city of Donetsk killed three children, while shelling of the border Belgorod region left a member of its territorial defense unit dead.
Ukraine’s national police said in a statement on Telegram that “Russian troops attacked the Vinnytsia region with drones, there are dead and wounded.”
“As a result of the enemy attack, a 52-year-old man was killed, and his 53-year-old wife died in hospital,” it said.
The Vinnytsia region is more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) away from the frontlines.
In the southern Zaporizhzhia region – which Moscow claims to have annexed and partially controls – a 76-year-old woman was killed when fragments of a Russian shell hit her while she was in her garden, Ukrainian Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
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Moscow-installed officials in the Russian-held city of Donetsk said that an attack there had killed three children.
“Three children died. A girl born in 2007, a girl born in 2021, and a boy born in 2014,” said Alexey Kulemzin, the Russian-appointed mayor of Donetsk, in a post on Telegram.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had downed drones and rockets over Belgorod and the Kaluga region, southwest of the capital Moscow.
The governor of Russia’s Lipetsk region also said on Friday that two drones were downed in a district around 300 kilometers (180 miles) away from Ukraine.
With AFP
