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.

Ukraine reports ten fatalities from intensified Russian missile and drone strikes, marking a significant escalation in daytime attacks.

Ukraine has faced nearly 500 Russian missile and drone attacks that killed at least six people, officials have said, the latest in an increasing number of daytime strikes by Moscow.