A new round of Moscow's shelling and drone attacks killed five people in Ukraine Sunday, authorities said, while Kyiv hit an oil refinery in Russia's Saratov region.
There was no reduction in hostilities on the frontline, even as the United States and Russia agreed to hold a summit in a bid to resolve the conflict, which, so far, doesn't include Ukraine.
"Three people killed, one wounded in Zaporizhzhia region as a result of Russian shelling," Ukraine's national police said, adding that two more civilians died in the highly contested Donetsk region in the east.
Meantime, three beachgoers were killed in the Black Sea coastal city of Odesa, after they tripped on a mine while swimming in a prohibited area, which was mined to fend off a potential Russian navy attack.
The Ukrainian army claimed its drones had hit a large oil refinery in Russia's western Saratov region, almost 1,000 kilometers away from the front line.
The Saratov Governor, Roman Busargin, only gave a vague comment saying that "one of the industrial enterprises was damaged," adding that one person died as a result of the drone attack.
Another woman died in Russia's region of Belgorod, often under Ukrainian fire due to its proximity to the frontline, the local governor said.
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