Kyiv said on Friday that Russian attack drones had struck a school that shelters displaced Russians in Ukrainian-held territory in Russia's western Kursk region.

Russian forces have retaken 63.2% of the territory captured by Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday. Reuters could not independently verify the ministry's statement,

Russia’s defense ministry said a missile strike that killed four people in Kyiv overnight came in response to a Ukrainian attack earlier in the week using US-made ATACMS tactical missiles.

Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday. It said that Russia would retaliate, but that all the missiles had been intercepted,