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Russian bombardment kills eight in Ukraine: officials

Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least eight people on Tuesday, officials said, just as G7 leaders agreed to intensify pressure on Moscow over its four-year-long offensive.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed since the war started in February 2022.

G7 leaders, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met in the French resort of Evian on Tuesday, where they agreed to increase sanctions on Moscow.

A Russian drone strike on a car in the central Dnipropetrovsk region killed three people on Tuesday, regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha said.

“It took the lives of a mother and son — a woman of 87 and a 51-year-old man. Law enforcement is currently working to identify the third killed,” he said.

Russian shelling of the Donetsk region city of Sloviansk killed three others, while drone strikes on the southern Kherson region killed two people and wounded 16, according to officials.