Russian airstrikes on Tuesday killed four people, including a child, in Ukraine, while a drone strike from Kiev hit a house in Russia, killing a child and his parents, according to reports from local officials on both sides.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched more than four years agoit has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced millions in Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.
The two sides have stepped up deadly drone and long-range missile strikes in recent months, mostly targeting energy infrastructure, with Moscow aiming to damage Ukraine’s resolve and Kiev targeting Russian energy revenues.
In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike on a residential building killed a boy, born in 2014, and two adults in Russia’s Vladimir region, east of Moscow, Governor Alexander Avdeev said.
The couple’s five-year-old daughter was taken to hospital with burns.
The region is more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In Ukraine, a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in the front-line city of Nikopol killed at least three people and injured 12 others.
The bus was “going up to the stop — there were people both on board and at the stop,” the head of the region’s military administration Oleksandr Ganzha wrote on social media.
He posted photos showing an open yellow minibus during the attack and the bloodied remains of those killed strewn across the street in the aftermath.
