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Several dead in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv trade aerial attacks
strikes have killed at least nine people across overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
In a post on the messaging app Telegram, emergency services wrote that four people had been killed and 16 injured in the region, including three children, in what was described as a “massive night attack” with missiles and drones.
Four people were also reported to have been killed and five wounded in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine.
“Last night, the Khmelnytskyi region came under hostile Russian fire, which resulted in the destruction of civilian infrastructure … Unfortunately, four people were killed,” Serhiy Tyurin, the deputy head of the regional military administration, said in a Telegram post.
Officials said another person died in an attack in the southern city of Mykolaiv.
This comes as Russian authorities reported that a dozen Ukrainian drones had been intercepted as they flew toward Moscow.
Restrictions were imposed on at least four airports in the Russian capital, including the main airport of Sheremetyevo, the Russian civilian aviation authority said.
So far, there have been no reports of casualties on the Russian side.
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More soldiers and civilians held captive by both sides are expected to be swapped on Sunday in a third phase of a “1,000 for 1,000” deal reached during negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey, earlier this month.
Both countries are holding thousands of prisoners of war after more than three years of conflict.
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