Russia launched more than a hundred drones at Ukraine overnight and early Friday, killing one person and wounding eight others, officials said.
The nearly three-year war has seen a sharp escalation in recent days, with Moscow pummelling Ukraine鈥檚 energy infrastructure ahead of the winter.
Friday鈥檚 drone barrage came a day after Russia launched around 90 missiles on the war-torn country, cutting power to over a million people.
Moscow fired 132 drones overnight, of which 鈥�88 drones were shot down鈥� and 鈥�41 were lost, presumably due to defence countermeasures鈥�, Ukraine鈥檚 air force said.
Air defences shot down drones over a dozen regions, while falling debris damaged a health care clinic in the capital Kyiv, according to the local mayor.
A drone attack killed a woman in the southern city of Kherson, the head of the local military administration Roman Mrochko said.
At least two regions suffered power cuts on Friday, Ukrainian electricity operator Ukrenergo said.
鈥楨mergency repair works are on-going around the clock. By the end of the day, the power company plans to restore power to the de-energised customers in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions,鈥� it said.
The latest strikes come as Ukraine enters a tough winter, with Russian forces stepping up aerial attacks and advancing on the eastern front.
Moscow said Friday it had seized the village of Rozdolne in the southern part of Ukraine鈥檚 Donbas region, where it has made a string of territorial gains in recent months.
Russia downed 47 attack drones fired overnight by Ukraine, mainly targeting the Rostov border region where a major fire broke out at an industrial site, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Kyiv said Russian authorities returned over 500 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in combat, with most having died in the eastern Donetsk region.
Russia and Ukraine have been exchanging bodies and prisoners of war since the first months of the conflict 鈥� with casualties estimated to be high on both sides.
鈥楢s a result of repatriation activities, the bodies of 502 fallen defenders were returned to territory controlled by the government of Ukraine,鈥� Kyiv鈥檚 Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said on social media.
The centre said that 397 of the bodies were returned from the embattled Donetsk region, where fighting is most intense.
It said 24 were returned from the eastern Lugansk region and 64 from the southern Zaporizhzhia area, while 17 were handed back from morgues on Russian territory.
鈥榃e are grateful for the assistance of the International Committee of the Red Cross,鈥� Kyiv鈥檚 centre said.
It said the bodies will be taken for forensic medical examination and that 鈥榯ogether with the expert institutions, the deceased will be identified as soon as possible.鈥�
Russia, for its part, does not announce the return of its bodies.