Attacks by Russia and Ukraine have killed at least eight people, including a child, with four dead in Ukraine and another four in Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea, officials on both sides say.
Thursday’s strikes came as Moscow and Kyiv, in their fifth year of war, escalate attacks deep behind each other’s lines, driving the civilian toll to its highest since 2022 even as fighting on the front remains largely at a standstill.
Ukrainian strikes killed four people, including a child, and wounded eight in Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea on Thursday, local authorities said.
On the outskirts of Voronezh, 500km (310 miles) south of Moscow, a “three-year-old boy died” in a fire that broke out at his home after a drone crashed on it, regional Governor Alexander Gusev wrote on Telegram.
In Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, one man was killed and another wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a vehicle, regional authorities said in a statement on Telegram.
In Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, Ukrainian attacks killed two people and wounded four others, Moscow-installed officials said.
A Russian attack on a food business in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region killed three and injured at least 10 people, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on Thursday.
The attack had caused a fire, he added on Telegram.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s national broadcaster Suspilne reported that a 57-year-old man was killed in the Sumy region, in northeast Ukraine, in a mortar attack.
Credit: aljazeera.com
