A Russian air strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupyansk on October 24 killed one person and wounded 10 others, regional authorities said.
"The enemy struck near a shop and the town market," regional Governor Oleh Synyehubov said in his initial statement about the morning attack on the city in the Kharkiv region.
A 73-year-old woman was admitted to hospital in serious condition and it was not possible to save her, he added.
Russian shelling later in the day killed three people in the area around the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.
The people killed were two men aged 58 and 65 and a 63-year-old woman, he said.
Filashkin said Pokrovsk and its surrounding area are the target of Russian troops, and he urged local residents to evacuate.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian military also said the most intense Russian assaults along the front line were taking place in the Pokrovsk area, including near the coal mining town of Selydove.
Russian media and war bloggers reported on October 24 that Russian forces had advanced into Selydove, which is about 20 kilometers southeast of Pokrovsk.
Earlier on October 24, Ukrainian air defenses shot down 40 of the 50 drones launched by Russia at 11 of its regions, while another seven lost their way due to electronic jamming of their navigation systems, The Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement.
The drones were shot down in the Odesa, Mykolayiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Vinnytsya, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskiy, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Poltava, and Chernihiv regions, it said, adding that one drone was still in Ukrainian airspace while two more returned in the direction of Russia and Belarus.
Russia also launched two guided missiles and two cruise missiles, which missed their targets, the military said.
