Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least seven people on Monday and wounded more than two dozen others, Ukrainian officials said. Five people were killed in the central city of Dnipro, when a private business was hit by a Russian missile, while two were killed in an attack on a city bus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. In Dnipro, 28 were wounded -- four in a critical condition. "People have traumatic brain injuries, shrapnel wounds, fractures, and blast trauma," AFP quoted regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha as saying. The police force posted photos showing paramedics tending to the wounded under the bright sun. In Zaporizhzhia, the drone strike blew out the windows and back doors of a white minibus, photos published by the regional authorities showed. Both Russia and Ukraine have escalated aerial attacks in recent months as stalled negotiations have made no progress in halting the four-year war. Dnipro, an industrial city around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the front line, has been regularly targeted by Russia's military. Zaporizhzhia, 30 kilometers from the front, is the capital of a region which Moscow claims as its own and is fighting to capture.
