Ukrainian shelling on the Russian border region of Belgorod killed one person this morning, local authorities said.
"This morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the village of Urazovo in the Valuysky district with Grad missiles," regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
"One person died - a man who was on the street at the time of the shelling."
Russian regions bordering Ukraine like Belgorod have reported repeated attacks from Kyiv's forces including occasional cross-border incursions.
Air defences destroyed three Tochka-U missiles over the region this morning, the Russian defence ministry said.
The ministry also said it thwarted a drone attack on Moscow.
The mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin said there was "no damage or casualties" after air defence downed the drone over the district of Istrinsky.
Attacks on Russian territory, which were rare at the beginning of the offensive, have intensified in recent months, with Kyiv increasingly claiming responsibility.
Meanwhile, a party official in the Russian-held town of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's Kherson province was killed by a car bomb, the provincial governor said.
Vladimir Malov, executive secretary of the town branch of Russia's governing United Russia party, died in hospital, Vladimir Saldo said in a post on his Telegram channel.
He said it had been a "terrorist attack", meaning one orchestrated by Ukraine. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv.
Officials seen as supporting Russian rule in the parts of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed since its full-scale invasion in February last year have often been targeted in assassination attempts, many of them fatal.
In July, Russia said it had thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to kill Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-backed head of unilaterally annexed Crimea, arresting an agent before he could blow up Aksyonov's car.
