Marc Santora

Antoni Lallican, a Paris-based photographer, is the first working journalist to be killed by a remotely piloted drone during the war, according to press associations.

The drone strikes killed at least one person and injured dozens of others, officials said. The attack came amid rising alarm about the status of a nuclear plant relying solely on generators.

At least five people were killed before dawn in another large-scale and wide-ranging assault.

The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has long coveted.

Temporary truces have become a tool of performative diplomacy, an end in themselves rather than a prelude to a lasting settlement, analysts say.

Midrange attacks, using upgraded drones that Ukraine produces in huge numbers, are causing fuel shortages and complicating troop rotations.

A day earlier, Russia bombarded Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones, killing at least 11 people and damaging a holy cathedral.

Moscow can still inflict serious damage, but its forces are suffering higher casualties than their Ukrainian counterparts and losing ground, analysts say.

The Russian military blasted Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, with waves of ballistic missiles and drones that lasted into Thursday morning, a deadly show

Ukraine is engaged in a campaign in Crimea to take out Russian air defenses, sever vital supply lines, and cripple the peninsula's energy grid and fuel reserves.