KYIV: Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed at least 10 people in total across both sides of the border on Friday, local officials in the respective territories said. More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, strikes from both sides have been intensifying for several months, causing a growing number of civilian casualties. In Ukraine, two people were killed and eight wounded when a missile hit a residential building in the Black Sea port city of Odesa, said deputy mayor Oleksandr Filatov.

Waves of deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities from Odesa in the southeast to Kharkiv in the northeast left a dozen people dead and 90 injured.

Russian and Ukrainian strikes killed five people on both sides of the war border, officials said Thursday.The attacks came as Ukraine has stepped up drone