One person killed, 23 hurt in Russian strikes on Ukraine

Russia's latest strikes on Ukrainian regions have killed one person and wounded 23, officials said today.

One person was killed and seven wounded in the Kherson region yesterday, while in the Zaporizhzhia region, 16 people were wounded in a strike on the region's capital overnight, governors and police said.

In Kherson, Russian shelling and air strikes hit residential buildings, killing one 61-year-old woman and wounding seven people yesterday, said governor Oleksandr Prokudin.

In Zaporizhzhia, 16 people were wounded after Russia carried out seven overnight air strikes on the city and the surrounding district, Ukraine's National Police said.

The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the United States to present his plan to end two and a half years of war with Russia.

Zaporizhzhia governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram that four of the wounded, all women, were hospitalised.

The governor and police posted images of blocks of flats with balconies and windows torn off and damaged cars.

Mr Fedorov said 13 high-rise buildings were damaged as well as educational institutions and private houses.

Russia controls part of the territory in both the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Ukraine's air force said air defences had shot down three Shahed attack drones overnight and prevented another drone and two cruise missiles from reaching their targets.

In Russia, the defence ministry said it had intercepted and destroyed eight Ukrainian drones over its Kursk and Belgorod border regions overnight.

In the US, Mr Zelensky will present his proposals - which he calls a "victory plan" - to President Joe Biden, as well as presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

The visit comes after a summer of intense fighting: with Moscow advancing fast in eastern Ukraine and Kyiv holding on to swathes of Russia's Kursk region.

It also comes as Kyiv has for weeks pressed the West to allow it to use delivered long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia - so far to no avail.

Mr Zelensky is expected to try to convince Mr Biden to change his mind. "We have arrived in the United States of America," Mr Zelensky said on social media.

"The plan for Ukraine's victory will be on the table for all our allies."