A Russian strike on an apartment block in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has injured left at least 35 people injured, with fears others are trapped  still under the rubble of the high-rise residential building where they lived,

Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar on Saturday killed five people, as Moscow's troops pushed ahead in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

Ukraine struck the Moscow region on Tuesday in its biggest drone attack so far on the Russian capital, killing at least one woman, wrecking dozens of homes and forcing around 50 flights to be diverted from airports around Moscow.

At least 51 people have been killed and 219 wounded in the Ukrainian city of Poltava, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said, in one of the deadliest Russian missile attacks of Vladimir Putin ’s war.

A woman in the capital region was killed during the attack, officials said. Russian air defenses shot down 20 drones around Moscow and almost 150 nationwide, according to the Defense Ministry.

Ukraine sent waves of drones at the Moscow region and other areas of Russia early Tuesday, in its "biggest drone attack so far," Reuters said. Russia said it shot down 144 drones, including at least 20 in the Moscow region.