Dozens of Putin's 'suicide drones' are shot down by Ukraine in overnight blitz after Kyiv shelled Russian border village, killing one woman

Kyiv said on Sunday that it downed 35 Russian drones across Ukraine, including in the capital region, and that a strike on an eastern town wounded at least nine people.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than two years.

Ukraine said that the drone attacks were launched at central and southern regions, while the eastern Kharkiv and Donetsk region were targeted by missile strikes.

'As a result of combat operations, 35 'Shaheds' were shot down' over 10 regions, the air force said on social media.

It said the drones were downed in the central regions of Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk as well as southern regions of Odesa, Kherson and Mykolaiv.

Ukraine said that the drone attacks were launched at central and southern regions

Kyiv said on Sunday that it downed 35 Russian drones across Ukraine, including in the capital region

Further west, the regions of Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky were also hit by drone attacks.

In the embattled Donetsk region, officials said a Russian missile strike hit the town of Myrnograd.

'Russians shelled Myrnograd with 3 S-300 missiles: at least 9 people were wounded, including 1 teenager,' the head of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, said on social media.

He added that 'nine high-rise buildings' were damaged.

Officials published images of a tall residential building that had blackened walls, with destroyed cars and debris outside it.

Drones have become a vital part of both sides' arsenal 

Ukrainian servicemen of the 28th Separate Mechanised Brigade fires a 122mm mortar towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut

Drones are cheap and easy to manufacture, and pilots can be trained with ease

In the northeastern region of Kharkiv, local governor Oleg Synegubov said a recreation camp was on fire after shelling in the town of Bogodukhiv, north of the main city of Kharkiv and close to the Russian border.

Synegubov said the camp was shelled shortly after midnight. He released photos of wooden houses on fire and said there were no casualties.

Ukrainian shelling of a Russian border village in the Kursk region killed one woman on Sunday, the local governor said on social media.

Kyiv has shelled Russian border villages for months as Moscow's offensive in Ukraine drags on for more than two years, also sending drones into Russian territory, including far from the border.

Kursk governor Roman Starovoyt said Kyiv's forces had shelled the village of Kulbaki, some six miles from the Ukraine border.

Ukrainian servicemen from air defence unit of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade fire an anti aircraft cannon at a frontline, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine

A Ukrainian T-72 tank fires at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut

A woman puts flowers on a grave of a commander of the First Mechanized Battalion

'As a result of a direct hit from a shell, a residential building caught fire and a local woman died. Her husband had extensive burns and is now receiving qualified medical care,' he said.

Starovoyt later said that a Ukrainian drone fell on an oil depot in the city of Kursk.

Russia's defence ministry also said it had destroyed two Ukrainian drones over the border Belgorod region.

On Saturday, Moscow said it had destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones over its southern regions.

A Russian night-time strike on the east Ukrainian town of Myrnograd wounded at least 11 people, Kyiv said Sunday, while Moscow launched attack drones across the country.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than two years.

Myrnograd is a town in the Donetsk region around 25 miles from the frontline with Russian forces.

'Around 03:00 AM on March 10, Russian forces launched three S-300 missiles at the city of Myrnograd. They targeted a residential neighbourhood,' the prosecutor's office in the Donetsk region said on social media.

It said the strike wounded a '16-year-old boy, five women and five men aged 34 to 95' and that 17 'high rise buildings' were damaged in explosions.

Officials published photographs of destroyed cars, blackened walls of typical Soviet-era housing blocks with debris outside.