Russia appears to be using drone attacks on civilians to train young pilots, says a Ukrainian lawmaker with ties to Ukraine's military. One city has been hit by hundreds of drone strikes this year.

These attacks have killed seven people and injured 55, said Oleksandr Prokudin, Kherson's regional military government head, in a Telegram post.

Russian forces unleashed a combined drone and missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Saturday (Jan 18), killing three people, while two other attacks in the country's south killed three more,