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 asthe “largest-scale” attack by Ukraine this year, in which at least seven people were killed. Russian attacks on Ukraine also killed at least seven peopleand injured more than 39 on Saturday night.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently controls approximately a fifth of Ukrainian territory.
The latest Ukrainian strikes burned a building and damaged a car in Belgorod’s village of Koloskovo, acting regional Governor Alexandr Shuvaev said.
The injured child was sent to hospital while two others received medical assistance, he added.
Meanwhile, a woman was killed after a drone strike hit a home in the Astrakhan region, the local governor said on Monday.
Igor Babushkin added that the Ukrainian strike targeted an industrial facility but that it had not been damaged.
In Ukraine, two people were killed in Russian strikes on the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, the state emergencies service DSNS said.
It also reported that 54 trading pavilions were set ablaze at a local market in Sloviansk.
In the Sumy region, a man and a woman were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack, regional head Oleh Hryhorov said.
A separateovernight attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa damaged a civilian vessel and injured four people, local officials said.
Moscow has sought to put off foreign companies from trading with Ukraine by targeting its ports and coastline.
Kyiv has stepped up drone strikes deep inside Russia during the past few weeks.
On Saturday night, Ukraine fired some 822 drones towards Russia, with 600 aiming for Moscow, according to its regional governor, who said the Russian capital suffered “one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory”.
During the strikes on Saturday night, five people died in Russia’s south-western region of Rostov, its governor said. A woman was killed in an attack on a civilian bus in Belgorod, officials said, while an 83-year-old man died in a drone attack in the Moscow region.
A warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries was also hit.
Since July, Ukraine has repeatedly targeted the company, known as Russia’s version of Amazon. Ukraine’s defence ministry said the latest attack meant that seven out of 10 of the largest Wildberries logistics centres had been “disabled”.
Speaking to the BBC before the latest attacks, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s intelligence service said long-range strikes in Russia would continue.
Maj Gen Vadym Skibitski defended Ukrainian attacks on distribution warehouses such as Wildberries and accused Russia of using civilian networks to supply its armed forces.
“It’s one of the elements of the logistics system of the Russian Federation to wage the war, including through Wildberries – some military equipment, components and other elements,” he said.
Skibitski said Ukraine did not deliberately target civilians, adding that some deaths in Russia were the accidental result of air defences shooting down incoming missiles and drones.
He claimed that drone strikes were influencing opinion among Russia’s population, with concerns over the country’s capability to “prevent” attacks and “to protect some areas”.
Russia has also intensified missile attacks across Ukraine in recent weeks.
The Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz said on Monday that Russia had attacked its facilities 13 times during the past week.
In Russian attacks on Ukraine on Saturday night, a man and woman died after a private house was hit by a guided aerial bomb in the Zaporizhzhia region, officials said. Five others were killed in attacks across the country.
Russia said its attacks on Kyiv on Saturday night targeted a FirePoint facility producing parts for Ukrainian Flamingo missiles and a factory making components for drones.
The Russian attacks also hit a book market in the city’s Pochayna district. Burnt books could be seen on the ground.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 13 regions had come under attack last week, with Russia launching more than 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs and 62 missiles.
