Russia and Ukraine trade more deadly strikes - BBC News

Moscow says nine people have been killed in the past 24 hours, while Kyiv reports four deaths.

Image source, Ukraine's DSNSImage caption, Ukraine said sections of the local market in Sloviansk were on fire after overnight Russian strikes

Nine people have been killed and 23 injured, including a child, in Ukrainian strikes on Russia, local officials have said.

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.

Ukraine said two people were killed in Russian drone attacks on the north-eastern Sumy region, and another two in the eastern Donetsk region.

The strikes come a night after what Russia described as 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 and injured more than 39 on Saturday night.