Russia, Ukraine and drone strikes
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine carried out "deep strikes" on Moscow yesterday as both Ukrainian and Russian forces launched drone strikes at each other overnight. Meanwhile, a Chinese-owned ship was hit in one of the Russian strikes.
A Russian airstrike on a Kyiv apartment complex that killed at least 24 people and a Ukrainian strike on residential buildings and an oil refinery in Ryazan, Russia, suggested no end is in sight to the war.
Russia has launched a mass drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, killing one person and injuring at least 31. Local authorities report damage across six districts.
Emergency crews are tackling a fire in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhia region after a deadly Russian strike. Elsewhere, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to respond after strikes on Kyiv this week killed 24 people and injured dozens more.
Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they had agreed to a three-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump that will run from May 9 to May 11.