Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday killed a woman buried under rubble and injured 17 in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv and the surrounding region, regional officials said. Regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said six people were injured in an overnight drone attack on the Osnovyanskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. Natalia Avilova-Patrikeyeva said outside an apartment building with shattered balconies and windows blown out.
Air defenses in Russia's Bryansk and Kaluga Oblasts intercepted several drones overnight on April 20, which fell and started a fire at two separate energy substations, according to regional officials.
KYIV/DNIPRO, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber 300 km (185 miles) from its border on Friday after the warplane took part in an airstrike that killed at least eight people, including two children, in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Kyiv said. Missiles rained down on the city of Dnipro and the surrounding region in the early hours, damaging residential buildings, the main train station and wounding at least 28 civilians, regional officials said. Russia has stepped up its long-range aerial assaults on Ukraine's energy system and other targets in recent weeks, ratcheting up the pressure on Kyiv far behind the front lines where Russian forces have been slowly advancing in the east.
Russia launched attacks against nine of Ukraine's oblasts over the past day, killing at least seven people, including a child, and injuring at least 10, regional officials reported early on Feb. 6.