Ukraine reported multiple injuries from overnight Russian drone attacks in a handful of regions on September 29, while Russian defense officials claimed to have shot down 125 Ukrainian drones in the latest reflection of Kyiv's increasing efforts to take the 2 1/2-year-old war to Russian territory.
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The governor of Russia's southwestern region of Belgorod said one man had died in the town of Shebekino, near the Ukrainian border.
Russia's Defense Ministry suggested Ukrainian cross-border attacks were increasingly focused on its Volgograd region, to the east of the Kursk region where Ukrainian forces launched a surprise incursion in July that is thought to have captured around 1,300 square kilometers of Russian territory.
One of the attacks in Volgograd was reportedly near a major ammunition warehouse in Kotluban that has previously been targeted, but it was unclear if there was any damage.
Ukraine's military meanwhile said its air defenses had shot down 15 of 22 Russian attack drones detected in at least four regions of the country overnight, and said five more of those drones were thwarted by other "countermeasures."
The head of the Ukrainian military administration in the southern region of Zaporizhzhya, Ivan Fedorov, said high-rise buildings and private homes had been struck overnight and "there may be people under the rubble." He later said one woman had been rescued from under the wreckage and hospitalized.
The State Emergency Service said later that 11 people had been injured in the attacks.
Zaporizhzhya has recently seen near-daily destruction and injuries from aerial attacks.
The area hosts Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, which has been under Russian occupation since early in the 31-month-old full-scale invasion.
On September 28, Ukrainian officials said Supreme Court justice Leonid Loboyko was killed in a Russian attack on his vehicle while he was delivering humanitarian aid to residents of a village in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
The Ukrainian General Staff said around one-quarter of the 165 combat clashes in the past 24 hours took place in the region around Pokrovsk, the strategic frontline city in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region where Russia is said to have been advancing in recent months.
RFE/RL cannot independently confirm reports by either side of battlefield developments or casualties in many areas of the heaviest fighting.