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A Russian drone hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 30, officials said, as Moscow<\/a> pressed on with intensified daytime attacks.<\/p>\n The market, in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was hit at 9:50 am (0650 GMT), the local prosecutor’s office said.<\/p>\n Regional governor, Oleksandr Ganja, said in a Telegram<\/a> post that three women and two men were killed.<\/p>\n He added that a 14-year-old girl was among the wounded and was in a “critical condition”.<\/p>\n Five people were also injured on Saturday morning in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, near the front line, regional police said.<\/p>\n Read more<\/span>Baltic Sea strikes: How Ukraine aims to undermine Russia’s oil profits from Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n The Ukrainian air force said Russia<\/a> fired 286 drones overnight, of which 260 were intercepted.<\/p>\n In the northern Sumy region, 11 people were wounded in strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure overnight, police said.<\/p>\n Images released by Ukrainian emergency services showed a building whose upper floors were engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n Three people were wounded in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, including a baby aged five months and a six-year-old boy, Ganja said earlier on Telegram.<\/p>\n In Russia, a missile and drone attack on the southern Rostov region bordering Ukraine<\/a>, left one person dead and four seriously wounded in the city of Taganrog, regional governor Yuri Slyussar said.<\/p>\n He said three local residents and a foreigner were all in critical condition but did not specify the origin of the attacks.<\/p>\n On the Sea of Azov<\/a>, a foreign cargo ship was damaged by falling drone debris and caught fire, he added.<\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> meanwhile arrived in Istanbul<\/a> on Saturday for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a>. on security cooperation, a Ukrainian official told AFP.<\/p>\n Zelensky this week signalled he was ready for a truce over the Easter holidays, but the Kremlin<\/a> said it had not received “clearly formulated” proposals.<\/p>\nStalled talks<\/h2>\n