Residential buildings were left damaged after the Russian missile destruction. (Associated Press)
In short:
Four civilians have been killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia's western Kursk region, Russian officials say.
Russian ballistic missiles have also killed at least five civilians in Ukraine, officials say.
What's next?
Russia says it is "studying" a 30-day ceasefire plan proposed by the United States.
Four civilians have been killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia's western Kursk region, Russian officials say, a day after Ukrainian officials signalled they were open to a 30-day ceasefire.
Three men and one woman — employees at a feed mill in the village of Kozyrevka — died in the attack, acting governor of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein wrote on Telegram.
Here is the latest from the war in Ukraine.
Russian attacks in Odesa, Kursk
Russian ballistic missiles have also killed at least five civilians in Ukraine, officials said on Wednesday.
Firefighters at the site of a damaged building after a Russian missile hit the area. (AP: Photo/Ukrainian Emergency Service )
The Russian missiles killed four Syrian men between the ages of 18 and 24 on a ship docked at the southern port of Odesa, where it was loading Ukrainian wheat for Algeria, Infrastructure Minister Oleksii Kuleba said.
Russia has also made major gains in Kursk, it says, in their push to drive out Ukrainian forces who have been clinging onto a slice of the region since last August.
It has seized two more villages in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the RIA state news agency reported, citing the defence ministry.
Ukraine ready to accept ceasefire
Photo shows Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he talks to media
Russian forces also hit a transport vessel carrying ammunition for Ukrainian forces, the agency said.
Reuters could not independently verify those reports.
Russia controls just under a fifth of Ukraine, and has been edging forward for months.
Ukraine seized a sliver of western Russia in August as a bargaining chip but its grip there is weakening, according to open source maps of the war and Russian estimates.
Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, displaced millions of people and triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Ceasefire talks latest
Ukraine has agreed to a United States proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after high-level talks in Saudi Arabia this week.
The US also agreed to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after earlier suspending them and opening up bilateral talks with Russia.
Russia said it is "studying" the statements following the talks in Jeddah, which took more than eight hours.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russian politicians needed to be briefed by the United States on the plan before they would comment on whether a proposed ceasefire was acceptable for Russia.
He did not rule out the possibility of a phone call between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which he said could be organised very quickly if needed.
Russia says it needs to be briefed by the United States on ceasefire plan before they would comment on it. (Nicolas Maeterlinck/Leah Millis/Mikhail Metzel)
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