Five killed, 19 injured in Russian attack on Ukraine

Five people were killed and 19 others wounded by a Russian drone strike on a market in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol this morning, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office said.

"This is yet another war crime committed by the Russian Federation," the prosecutor's office said on Telegram.

The regional governor, Oleksandr Ganja, said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed.

He added that a 14-year-old girl was among 19 wounded and was in a "critical condition".

Nikopol, which faces Russian-occupied territory several kilometres away on the other bank of the Dnipro river, is a regular target of bombardment.

Meanwhile, a drone and missile attack killed one person and seriously wounded four in Russia's southern Rostov region, its governor said, and a cargo ship was damaged in the Sea of Azov.

The drone attack took place in the port city of Taganrog, Rostov regional governor Yuri Slyusar posted on Telegram, adding that the wounded people were in "critical condition".

A missile struck a "commercial facility", Mr Slyusar added.

Falling drone debris also hit a foreign-flagged cargo vessel in the Sea of Azov, causing a fire, while air defences destroyed drones over Taganrog Bay and other districts, the governor said.

Mr Slyusar did not specify the origin of the attacks.

Kyiv regularly carries out strikes within Russia in response to Russian attacks, which have targeted Ukrainian territory daily since Moscow's full-scale offensive began in February 2022.

The attacks came a day after Russian daytime strikes killed 14 people in Ukraine.

Yesterday's attacks included a Russian attack on Ukraine's Korosten in the Zhytomyr region which damaged up to 200 homes and killed one person, according to local officials.