At least 16 people killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine

Russian strikes have killed at least 16 people in Ukraine, local authorities have said, after Moscow rained missiles and drones on its neighbour in overnight attacks.

The Ukrainian air force said Moscow's forces had deployed 659 drones in the attack and 44 missiles, adding that its air defence units downed 636 drones and 31 missiles.

It comes after the end of a 32-hour Orthodox Easter truce marred by accusations of mass violations, according to both countries.

Missile and drone attacks on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed nine people, the head of the city's military administration Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram.

Strikes on the capital Kyiv killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old boy, the city's mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Across the Ukrainian capital, blasts set buildings and cars alight, shattered windows and damaged the facades of hotels, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said in an assessment of the damage posted on Telegram.

Rescuers pulled a child from the rubble of a residential building that collapsed in Kyiv's Podilsky district, where a drone "literally flew into an 18-story apartment block", Mr Klitschko said.

The attack on Kyiv wounded at least 45 people, including several medics, Mr Klitschko said.

Three people were killed in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of the regional administration said on Telegram.

A drone strike on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded a 77-year-old woman and a 66-year-old man, the head of the regional military administration Oleg Synegubov said on Telegram.

Russia has fired hundreds of drones on Ukraine almost nightly since the beginning of the four-year war, with Ukraine regularly carrying out strikes within Russia in response to its attacks.

Two people were killed in Ukrainian overnight strikes on Russia, according to officials.

They were killed in the southern Krasnodar Krai region, its governor Veniamin Kondratyev said.

A 14-year-old girl and a young woman were killed in the Black Sea city of Tuapse when a volley of drones hit housing and a music school, Mr Kondratyev said. Five other people were wounded.