Seven people died during Russia’s nighttime attacks on Ukraine

Russian missile strikes killed five people, including a child, in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last night, while a teenager and another person were killed in shelling in Kyiv and the surrounding region, officials said on Saturday.

The strikes came less than 48 hours after Russia wrapped up a three-day summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in the city of Kazan, where President Vladimir Putin faced calls from world leaders to end the conflict.

“After everything that was said in Kazan, the Russian killers returned to their usual activities,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Saturday.

“This once again proves that aggression cannot be stopped by talking, but only by decisive actions to protect the state,” he added.

On Friday evening, as a result of strikes in Dnipro, five people died and several buildings, including a hospital, were damaged.

More than a dozen people, including children, were injured in the city, Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported on Telegram.

Images shared by the governor showed rescue workers working on piles of debris, while another showed what appeared to be a hospital room with broken windows.

According to the regional authorities, as a result of separate night attacks on the capital city of Kyiv and its surroundings, two people were killed, including a teenage girl who was killed when a drone struck a residential building.

Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, came under deadly drone and missile strikes during the Russian invasion.

Kyiv is asking for increased air defenses from its allies ahead of what is likely to be the harshest winter yet, as Moscow steps up strikes on energy infrastructure.

The Russian military said on Saturday that it had captured the front-line village of Alexandropol in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where it has launched a series of offensives in recent months.