As many as 22 people have been killed in Ukraine and Russia after the two sides traded heavy fire over the past two days, officials said on Tuesday.
Out of these casualties, 11 people were reportedly killed in Ukraine, while another 11 have been killed in Russia.
Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, said seven people, including three children, were killed and nearly 40 wounded when drone debris fell on the resort village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik on Monday.
The statement was then followed by updates from Sergey Aksyonov, Putin-appointed head of Russian-occupied Crimea, who said that the death toll in the region climbed to four, with others injured.
He added that more civilians had died in the border settlements in the Crimea region.
In Ukraine, three people, including an emergency response worker along with his minor son, were killed in the attack when Russian forces struck a petrol station in the Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, an area repeatedly targeted during the war.
In his social media post, regional Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said a fire broke out as a result of the attack, damaging the station and nearby vehicles. He said eight more people were killed, including two children, in an overnight attack in Zaporizhzhia.
Civilian deaths have increased in recent months, although both sides deny targeting civilians.
Besides, the Russian Ministry of Defence on Monday claimed that its forces captured new settlements in Bilyi Kolodiaz and Uspenivka in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.
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