In a fresh round of tit-for-tat violence that shows no signs of becoming a trend, Ukrainian missile strikes on Russia's Belgorod region overnight killed six people and injured four, according to the region's acting governor. Among the injured was a 14-year-old child, as Alexander Shuvaev reported on Telegram on Monday.

Not to be outdone, Ukraine officials reported two deaths from Russian drone strikes on the Sumy region, which borders Russia and has grown accustomed to such attacks. This comes just a night after what Russian officials dubbed the 'largest-scale' Ukrainian attack of the year, which killed at least seven. Meanwhile, Russian attacks on Ukraine on Saturday night also killed at least seven and injured more than 39.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, it has managed to occupy roughly a fifth of Ukrainian territory - a fact that presumably brings comfort to those counting corpses.

Shuvaev detailed that the latest Ukrainian strikes burned a building and damaged a car in the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district, near the border. The injured child was hospitalized, and two others received medical assistance.

Kyiv has been increasingly bold with drone strikes deep into Russian territory. On Saturday night alone, Ukraine launched some 822 drones, with 600 aimed at Moscow, according to the regional governor, who described it as 'one of the most massive drone attacks in recent memory.' That attack killed five in Rostov, a woman in Belgorod, and an 83-year-old man in the Moscow region, plus hit a warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries - Russia's answer to Amazon, if Amazon were also a target of military strikes.

Since July, Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Wildberries, and Kyiv's defence ministry claims that now seven out of ten of the company's largest logistics centres have been 'disabled.' We're sure the convenience of next-day delivery is sorely missed.

Russia, for its part, has intensified missile attacks across Ukraine. Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz said Russia hit its facilities 13 times in the past week. In Saturday night's attacks, a man and woman died when a guided aerial bomb struck a private house in the Zaporizhzhia region, and five others were killed elsewhere. Russia claimed its strikes on Kyiv targeted a FirePoint facility producing parts for Ukrainian Flamingo missiles and a drone-component factory - also managing to hit a book market in the Pochayna district, leaving charred books as a literary critique.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that 13 regions came under attack this week, with Russia launching over 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs, and 62 missiles. Both sides, naturally, accuse each other of targeting civilians.

In related news, major Russian grain export terminals in a Ukrainian Black Sea port were hit, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner told the BBC that Putin can no longer claim victory. At this rate, the only thing winning is the body count.