\n<\/p>\n
Nine people have been killed and 23 injured, including a child, in Ukrainian strikes on Russia, local officials have said. <\/b><\/p>\n
Eight people were killed in the western Belgorod region bordering Ukraine in the past 24 hours. A woman died overnight in the southern Astrakhan region.<\/p>\n
Ukraine said two people were killed in Russian drone attacks on the north-eastern Sumy region, and another two in the eastern Donetsk region.<\/p>\n
The strikes come a night after what Russia described as <\/b>the “largest-scale” attack by Ukraine this year, in which at least seven people were killed. Russian attacks on Ukraine also killed at least seven people <\/b>and injured more than 39 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently controls approximately a fifth of Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n
The latest Ukrainian strikes burned a building and damaged a car in Belgorod’s village of Koloskovo, acting regional Governor Alexandr Shuvaev said.<\/p>\n
The injured child was sent to hospital while two others received medical assistance, he added.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a woman was killed after a drone strike hit a home in the Astrakhan region, the local governor said on Monday. <\/p>\n
Igor Babushkin added that the Ukrainian strike targeted an industrial facility but that it had not been damaged.<\/p>\n
In Ukraine, two people were killed in Russian strikes on the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, the state emergencies service DSNS said.<\/p>\n
It also reported that 54 trading pavilions were set ablaze at a local market in Sloviansk.<\/p>\n
In the Sumy region, a man and a woman were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack, regional head Oleh Hryhorov said.<\/p>\n
A separate <\/b>overnight attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa damaged a civilian vessel and injured four people, local officials said.<\/p>\n
Moscow has sought to put off foreign companies from trading with Ukraine by targeting its ports and coastline.<\/p>\n
Kyiv has stepped up drone strikes deep inside Russia during the past few weeks.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, Ukraine fired some 822 drones towards Russia, with 600 aiming for Moscow, according to its regional governor, who said the Russian capital suffered “one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n