One killed, dozens wounded in Russian strikes on Kharkiv in Ukraine, Russia captures a village in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region

At least one person was killed and 71 wounded in Russian drone attacks on the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said on Monday, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for more support from Kyiv’s allies.

One person was also killed in a drone attack on the southern city of Odesa and at least 20 were wounded in a morning drone strike on Zaporizhzia in the southeast, regional officials said.

In Kharkiv, apartment buildings, a kindergarten and the regional draft office were damaged in two waves of strikes, local officials and the military said.

During the second wave, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said six Shahed attack drones had struck Ukraine’s second biggest city within 10 minutes, aimed “at residential streets, at cars, at people”.

He said the 71 people wounded in the two attacks included seven children.

Andriy Prenko, 61, said he was having breakfast in his kitchen when he heard a drone approach.

“I woke my wife and goddaughter up and took them to the bathroom. I stood behind the partition wall and then there was an explosion,” he told Reuters in his damaged apartment.

“Glass shattered and the windows were blown off. Then there was another one (attack).”

Kharkiv has frequently been targeted since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Russia has increased the intensity of aerial attacks in recent weeks, and carried out more missile and drone strikes across Ukraine overnight.

Russian airstrikes have killed thousands of civilians during the war. Moscow says it does not target civilians directly although it does target infrastructure that it says supports Ukraine’s war effort. Ukraine has killed a smaller number of civilians in attacks on Russian territory and Russian-held parts of Ukraine.

Zelenskiy urged Kyiv’s Western partners to deliver on pledges to boost Ukrainian defences.

“We are strongly counting on our partners to fully deliver on what we have agreed,” Zelenskiy wrote on X. “Air defense remains the top priority for protecting lives.”

Russia said Monday it has captured a settlement in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, the first village in the central region claimed to have come under the control of Russian troops.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces captured Dachne in Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has been vying to gain a foothold for the first time during its over three-year offensive.

Dnipropetrovsk, and in particular its capital city of Dnipro, has been under persistent Russian strikes since Moscow launched the offensive in February 2022.

It is an important mining and industrial hub for Ukraine, and deeper Russian advances into the region could have a serious impact on Kiev's struggling military and economy.

Earlier Monday, the Ukrainian army's general staff said its troops had "repelled" Russian attacks the day before "in the vicinity" of the village.

Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the five Ukrainian regions- Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea- that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.

Russia used Dnipro as a testing ground for its "experimental" Oreshnik missile in late 2024, claiming to have struck an aeronautics production facility.

Meanwhile, Russian strikes killed at least four people and wounded more than 30 others across Ukraine early Monday, spurring evacuations from damaged housing blocs and sending civilians to bomb shelters.

Moscow has launched a series of large-scale drone and missile attacks as ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine, led by the United States, grind to a halt.

Two people were killed in the eastern Sumy region and one in the Black Sea region of Odesa in the south, emergency services said on social media.

One man was killed in the southern Kherson region, the governor said.

More than 40 people were wounded, most of them in the eastern regions of Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk, officials said. 

The Ukrainian air force said Moscow had launched 101 drones across the country and four missiles. Seventy-five of the drones were downed, it added.

The Ukrainian army also said Monday Russian strikes targeted two recruitment centres in separate cities, wounding four people. 

The Russian drone attacks on recruitment centres appear to be the latest of a new trend following similar strikes over the weekend and last week.

The army said on social media a strike on a recruitment centre in Kharkiv wounded three people while a separate drone attack on a centre in Zaporizhzhia further south left one wounded.