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Russian shelling killed two children — a brother and sister — in the village of Druzhba (Friendship) in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the local governor said.
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“At about three o’clock in the afternoon, the Russians shelled the village with artillery — one of the shells hit the yard where the children were,” Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on social media.
The boy was aged 10 and the girl 16.
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Earlier Friday, Kyrylenko said a couple had also been killed by Grad rocket fire in the city of Kostyantynivka.
In the Chernigiv region in northern Ukraine, governor Vyacheslav Chaus said an employee of a cultural centre had been found dead after Russian shelling.
In the region of Odesa, southern Ukraine, governor Oleg Kiper said that out of a total of 21 people wounded in a barrage of Russian missile and drone attacks over the past four days, four people were still hospitalised.
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