A Russian drone has hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, killing five people and wounding 19, officials have said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks.
The market, in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was hit at 09:50 AM (0650 GMT) on Saturday, the local prosecutor's office said.
Regional governor, Oleksandr Ganja, said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed.
He added that a 14-year-old girl was among 19 wounded and was in a "critical condition".
Five people were also injured on Saturday morning in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, near the front line, regional police said.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 286 drones overnight, of which 260 were intercepted.
In the northern Sumy region, 11 people were wounded in strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure overnight, police said.
Images released by Ukrainian emergency services showed a building whose upper floors were engulfed in flames.
Three people were wounded in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, including a baby aged five months and a six-year-old boy, Ganja said earlier on Telegram.
In Russia, a missile and drone attack on the southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, left one person dead and four seriously wounded in the city of Taganrog, regional governor Yuri Slyussar said.
He said three local residents and a foreigner were all in critical condition but did not specify the origin of the attacks.
On the Sea of Azov, a foreign cargo ship was damaged by falling drone debris and caught fire, he added.
Stalled talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, arrived in Ankara on Saturday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on security cooperation, a Ukrainian official said.
Zelenskyy this week signalled he was ready for a truce over the Easter holidays, but the Kremlin said it had not received "clearly formulated" proposals.
Ukraine has accused Russia of prolonging the war to capture more territory, and says Moscow is not interested in peace.
Talks between the two warring parties, mediated by the United States, have been stalled by the war in the Middle East.
In comments to reporters, including AFP, published on Friday, Zelenskyy said he had invited an American delegation to Ukraine to relaunch negotiations with Moscow.
"The delegation will do everything possible in the current conditions, during the war with Iran, to come to Kiev," Zelenskyy said.
"The American group can come to us and, after us, go to Moscow. If it does not work out with three parties, let's do it this way," he added.
