MOSCOW - Civilians were killed in attacks in both Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday, while Moscow was hit by drones for the sixth night in a row as the war -- which is now hitting Russian territory daily -- dragged into its 19th month.
Kyiv, which vowed this summer to "return" the war to Russia, has regularly hit Moscow and other cities deep inside Russia with drone attacks.
The latest attacks come as the war grinds on for a year and a half, now bogged down as Kyiv's troops fight in a counteroffensive.
In the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, authorities said three civilians were killed by Kyiv's forces Wednesday.
"The Ukrainian forces launched an explosive device through a drone when people were on the street," Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
The region has been targeted by shelling, drone attacks and occasional cross-border incursions for months.
In Moscow, the drone attack caused no casualties, crashing into a skyscraper and smashing a window.
Drones were also downed outside Moscow -- in the Mozhaisky and Khimki districts -- Russia's defence ministry said.
The attack on Moscow came hours after Kyiv said Russian artillery hit two villages near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, killing three people and wounding two others.