Officials say strikes kill at least 10 across Ukraine, Russia and occupied areas

Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 10 people in total on Friday across both sides of the border, local officials in the respective territories said.

In Ukraine, deputy mayor Oleksandr Filatov said two people were killed and eight wounded when a missile hit a residential building in the Black Sea port city of Odesa. Emergency services said one of those killed was a woman who had been walking in a park with children, and that the children survived and were receiving assistance. Filatov said residential buildings, a religious institution, a pre-school facility, vehicles and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.

Local prosecutors said a later attack on the nearby port city of Mykolaiv killed two people aboard a foreign-flagged civilian vessel. They said two other foreign-flagged ships were also damaged.

Russia denied targeting civilians and said it struck military-related infrastructure across southern Ukraine. The report said Moscow has stepped up air raids on Ukrainian Black Sea ports in recent weeks.

In the frontline city of Kherson, the city's military administration said a 70-year-old woman was killed and five other elderly people were wounded in Russian attacks. Vladimir Vasilenko, the Moscow-appointed governor in one Russian-occupied part of the Kherson region, said two other people were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a freeway.

In Russia's Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine, the regional government said a man was killed when a drone hit his car. Ivan Prikhodko, the Moscow-installed governor of Gorlivka, a Russian-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, said one person was killed in a Ukrainian attack there.

The source said strikes by both sides have intensified for several months, more than four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and have caused a growing number of civilian casualties. It said US-brokered talks on ending the conflict have remained effectively frozen as Washington's attention has shifted to its war against Iran. According to the United Nations, June was the deadliest month for civilians in Ukraine since April 2022, with at least 293 people killed.