Kiev, Ukraine:
Russia and Ukraine said they downed dozens of drones overnight, as both launched nighttime strikes on each other's targets behind vast front lines.
Drones – both attack craft packed with explosives and aircraft with sophisticated cameras for reconnaissance – have been used extensively during the two-year war.
Ukraine's air force said Russia fired 37 Iranian “Shahed” kamikaze drones and three missiles into its territory overnight.
“As a result of combat operations, 33 'Shaheds' were shot in the Kirovograd, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions,” said a message on Telegram.
In Moscow, the Defense Ministry said it had intercepted 16 Ukrainian drones in the early hours of Friday.
About fifteen were destroyed over the southern Volgograd region, the nearest part of which is about 300 kilometers (185 miles) from the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
Another drone was shot down over the Belgorod border region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Belgorod has seen multiple shellings and airstrikes since Russia invaded in February 2022.
In the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, an overnight Russian attack wounded five people, including a three-year-old child, Governor Oleg Synegubov said.
Kharkiv is regularly attacked by artillery, rockets and drones.
Synegubov posted a photo of a row of shops with their windows blown out and a crater in a road next to a residential building.
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