At least five people have been killed in a Russian attack on the south-eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Dnipro, while attacks in neighbouring areas caused further casualties, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
At least 28 people were injured in the Dnipro attack, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the military administration for the Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote on Telegram. A company was also damaged.
The regional public prosecutor's office described the incident as a missile strike. Dnipro is a key centre for the Ukrainian defence industry.
Authorities also reported casualties in the neighbouring Zaporizhzhya region.
Three people were killed and eight others injured, military governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram. He said the Russian military had attacked a bus in a district of Zaporizhzhya using a drone.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke not only of the attacks in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhya, but also of strikes on energy infrastructure in the regions of Sumy, Odessa and Chernihiv, as well as attacks in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions.
He reiterated that his country needed more resources for air defence, particularly against ballistic missiles.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for more than four years with Western assistance.
