A Russian drone killed three people and wounded a dozen more at a bus stop in the frontline city of Nikopol in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, an official has announced.
"Three people were killed and another 12 injured. The enemy attacked a city bus with an FPV drone right in downtown Nikopol. It was pulling up to the stop - there were people both on board and at the stop," the head of the region's military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha, wrote on social media.
Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson also killed three "elderly" residents and wounded seven other people today, a regional official said.
Two boys were also killed in Russia and Ukraine overnight, officials said, as the two sides exchanged latest strikes more than four years after Moscow sent troops into its neighbour.
Russia has been launching drones and missiles at Ukraine almost nightly throughout its invasion - the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II.
Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in recent weeks in a bid to reduce Moscow's earnings from oil exports, as the Middle East war pushes up prices.
In Russia, a 12-year-old boy was among three people killed in the Vladimir region after a drone struck a residential building, the regional governor said.
"Two adults and their son were killed," Vladimir region's governor Alexander Avdeev said on Telegram, adding that the couple's five-year-old daughter was in hospital with burns.
An 11-year-old boy died and five others were wounded when a house caught fire as a result of a drone strike in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Mr Ganzha said.
According to the Russian defence ministry quoted by media, Russia shot down 45 Ukrainian drones over the country overnight.
In Ukraine, "the enemy attacked four districts of the region more than ten times with drones," Mr Ganzha said on Telegram.
In other areas, strikes sparked fires and damaged an administrative building and power lines, wounding two men.
Kazakhstan says CPC oil exports via Black Sea stable
Kazakhstan's energy ministry said that oil shipments via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium were stable after Russia's military accused Ukraine of damaging loading facilities belonging to the group in the Black Sea.
Russia's Defence Ministry said yesterday that Ukraine had attacked facilities at the maritime transhipment complex in the port of Novorossiysk overnight, damaging a mooring point for the CPC and igniting fires at four oil product reservoirs.
"The work of our oil sector is stable and CPC exports continue to be stable," Sungat Yesimkhanov, Kazakhstan's deputy energy minister, told reporters.
The CPC terminal, located to the south-west of Novorossiysk, handles 80% of Kazakhstan's crude exports.
Supply volumes via the Tengiz-Novorosiysk pipeline rose last year to 70.5 million tonnes - or 1.53 million barrels per day - from 63m tonnes in 2024.
CPC shareholders include US companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil.
