Russian attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region kill six

Russian forces launched attacks in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, killing at least six people, ‌regional officials said, after the expiry of a US-mediated ceasefire.

Ukrainian officials said Russia launched more than 200 drones overnight, putting ​an end to ⁠hopes that the three-day ceasefire that ended Monday would be extended.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, ‌meanwhile, said his country's forces had struck ‌gas facilities in Russia's central Orenburg region, more than 1,500 km (900 miles) from its borders. A drone attack on an apartment building in Zelenskiy's hometown, the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killed two and injured four, including the dead couple's nine-month-old granddaughter, regional governor ‌Oleksandr Hanzha and the head of the military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, said on Telegram.

The child's leg was severed.

Zelensky, also writing on ⁠Telegram, denounced the strike as "cynical and devoid of all military logic".

"After the end of the partial three-day ceasefire, Russia continues to kill and maim Ukrainians and pressure on it must therefore in no way be weakened," he said.

Northeast of Kryvyi Rih, an aerial bomb strike killed four and injured three, Hanzha said.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian military, in a late evening bulletin, said 170 combat clashes had been recorded over the past 24 hours along the 1,250-km (775-mile) front.

The ​report said the heaviest fighting had occurred near two key points in Ukrainian defences in the east ‌of the country - the towns of Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk. Russian forces, it said, had conducted 25 and 24 combat operations respectively.

Ukraine and Russia had agreed to the ceasefire linked to the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World ⁠War Two, part of a US-led push for peace under President Donald Trump after more than four years of war.

Trump said on Friday he hoped the truce would be extended.

Although neither side reported large-scale airstrikes during the ceasefire, both said fighting continued along the ​front line, accusing ‌each other of drone and artillery attacks.

Reuters