(Reuters) – Russian attacks killed two people late on Friday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia and three more in the country’s north and east, officials said.
Zaporizhzhia regional governor Ivan Fedorov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the city had been struck more than 10 times, killing two people and injuring eight.
Pictures posted online showed rescue teams sifting through rubble and apartment blocks and homes with windows and facades badly damaged.
In Sumy region, on Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, prosecutors said Russian forces dropped at least six guided bombs on the village of Krasnopillia, killing two people and injuring at least two.
In eastern Donetsk region, the focal point of Russia’s steady westward advance, prosecutors said Russian forces had dropped three bombs on the town of Kostiantynivka, close to the front lines, killing one person.
The Kremlin said this week that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed in a call with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to observe a 30-day ceasefire on energy targets.
That accord fell short of a wider agreement that the U.S. had sought, and which was accepted by Ukraine, for a blanket 30-day ceasefire. Talks on pursuing a ceasefire are scheduled for next week in Saudi Arabia and, separately, with Russian and Ukrainian officials.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
