8 dead in missile and drone attacks on Russian and Ukrainian territory

At least eight people have been killed in missile and drone attacks on Russian ‌and Ukrainian territory in the past 24 hours, local authorities on both sides said on Monday, with damage reported to energy infrastructure in Russia’s Belgorod region.

The strikes follow one of the heaviest Russian bombardments of Kyiv since the start of the four-year war, ​after Moscow vowed on Saturday to retaliate for what it described as a deliberate drone strike on ​a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region.

Ukraine’s military denied the Russian ⁠accusations and said it had struck an elite drone command unit in the area.

Since then, four people, ​including two teenagers, have been killed in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian town of Horlivka, its mayor Ivan Prikhodko ​said on Monday on Telegram,