Russia has intensified attacks on Ukraine, Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles. Ukrainian officials said Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine on Saturday, killing 15 people and damaging dozens of residential buildings as well as energy infrastructure across the country.

Ukraine's emergency services said a Russian missile struck a residential building in the central city of Poltava, killing 11 people and wounding 16, including four children. They also said 22 people were rescued from the rubble and emergency crews worked through the night. Rescuers carried the dead out on stretchers.

 A cloud of smoke rising from the rubble

• TV footage showed thick plumes of smoke rising from piles of rubble outside the building, parts of which have been reduced to twisted masses of metal and building materials.
• Firefighters and dozens of rescue workers were searching through the rubble and carrying the dead out on stretchers.
• A retired military veteran, who was certain that his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter had died on the building's first floor (the U.S. said it was the second), waited outside the building all day, checking in with rescue teams as they brought in bodies on stretchers.

One person died in a drone attack in Kharkiv

The mayor said that one person was killed and four were injured in a drone attack in Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine. At the same time, regional officials said that three police officers were killed during the attacks when they were patrolling the streets in a village in the northeastern region of Sumy.

Ukraine and Russia later traded blame for the attack on a hostel at a boarding school in the Ukrainian-occupied part of Russia's Kursk region, with each side accusing the other of launching the assault. Ukraine's military said four people were killed.