Russian strikes kills one in east Ukraine

Meanwhile, over the border in Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack killed a woman. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KYIV – A Russian strike has killed one man and wounded four in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, the eastern region’s military administration head said early on March 1.

Meanwhile, over the border in Russia’s southern Bryansk region, a Ukrainian drone attack killed a woman in the village of Chernookovo, the governor there said.

Russia’s invasion ground on into a fifth year earlier this week, despite a US-led push to revive negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.

“The enemy attacked three districts of the region 10 times with drones and artillery,” regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha said on Telegram.

“In Synelnykove district, Slavgorod and Mezhivska communities were hit. Housing was damaged,” Mr Ganzha said. “Unfortunately, a man died.”

Other Russian strikes were reported in the Black Sea port city of Odesa and in Kharkiv, where a fire caused by one of the attacks forced the evacuation of a dormitory, according to the eastern city’s mayor Igor Terekhov.