Rescuers work at a damaged city hospital hit by a Russian guided air bomb in Kharkiv, Ukraine

AP Moscow

Russia and Ukraine traded aerial attacks overnight, resulting in two deaths in each country, officials said.Ukraine’s southern Dnipro and northeastern Sumy came under combined rocket and drone attack. Head of the Dnipro regional administration Serhii Lysak said at least two people had died and five were wounded in the barrage.

In Dnipro, a multi-storey building and business were damaged during the strike and in the region a fire engulfed a shopping centre. In Sumy, three people were injured.

Kharkiv sustained an intense aerial bombardment overnight with authorities reporting Ukraine’s second-largest city was hit by 4 guided aerial bombs, 2 ballistic missiles and 15 drones over a 3-hour period. Russia targeted Ukraine with 208 drones and 27 missiles overnight. Air defence and electronic warfare took down or intercepted 183 dro­n­es and 17 missiles but hits from 10 missiles and 25 dro­nes had been seen in 9 places.