A Russian drone attack injured four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the regional governor said.

At least four people were killed in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro by a massed Russian overnight drone strike, local officials reported, with 22 others injured.

A Russian drone strike on Ukraine's second-largest city killed two people and wounded 35 late on Saturday, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv's partners to respond to such attacks while seeking peace in the three-year-old war.

Russian drones struck several targets in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, late on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least nine, local officials said.

Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping center, apartment blocks and other buildings in Kharkiv late Saturday, killing two people and wounding 30 others, Ukrainian officials said. Regional Gov.

Ukrainian forces have responded to Russian efforts to expel them from one part of Russian territory by launching a large number of attacks on another border area, using drones, artillery and troops.