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MOSCOW, Aug 12 : Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's south killed two people, including an 8-year-old child, the regional governor said on Wednesday after the latest exchange of air attacks between the warring countries.

Russian overnight strikes on a frontline city in southern Ukraine also killed two. Ukraine has increased its strikes on Russia in what it says is fair retribution for Moscow's own daily strikes on Ukrainian cities that force people into shelters and kill civilians across the country.

Russia's Krasnodar -- a southern region home to several tourist hotspots -- saw a barrage of "several hundred" Ukrainian drones, regional governor Venyamin Kondratyev said.

"An eight-year-old child died in Novorossiysk... Eight people, including one child, were also wounded and have been hospitalised," Kondratyev said on Telegram.

He added that debris from drones damaged 21 buildings in the port city, with unverified images on social media showing blocks of flats with blown-out windows and charred cars.
Another person was killed when drone debris fell into the garden of a private house in the village of Volna.

"Doctors did everything they could, but, unfortunately, they were unable to save the man," Kondratyev said.Two people were also wounded in the resort town of Gelendzhik on the Black Sea coast.

Russia shot down 502 Ukrainian drones across its territory and the Black Sea overnight, its defence ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine's air force meanwhile reported Moscow attacked with missiles and 138 drones, 112 of which were shot down or intercepted, launched mostly at its southern Odesa region and Sumy in the northeast.

Russian drones killed two people in the frontline city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, the city chief said, including a woman whose house was hit.

Civilians and frequently killed in the city, with Russian troops based on the opposite side of the Dnipro river, which snakes through southern Ukraine.