Seven people were killed and more than 50 were injured in Ukraine overnight after Russian missiles and drones targeted communities across the eastern half of the country.

A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy early on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 13, including a child, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

An 18-year-old British volunteer who enlisted to help defend Ukraine was killed by a Russian drone just minutes into his first mission, according to a report. James Wilton, from Huddersfield, travelled to Ukraine aged 17 and with no prior military experience, where he was reportedly given a crash training course by Ukrainian instructors.

Officials say a Russian drone has blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack that killed at least six people and wounded nine others.

A drone attack by Ukraine sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of the region, said early on Wednesday, according to the Guardian UK. Meanwhile,

Russia launched over 100 drones and Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Ukraine on the night of February 5, targeting five regions, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. In particular, during the night,

Ukraine is using a new type of drone capable of destroying Russian gas pipelines—and unlike kamikaze drones, they can be used multiple times. For several months, Kyiv has been targeting infrastructure,