KYIV: Russian attacks killed at least five people, including three members of a displaced family, in separate attacks across Ukraine`s war-scarred east, Ukrainian authorities said on Thursday.

A couple and their 36-year-old son were killed in a village in the eastern Kharkiv region on Wednesday, local officials said. Two more women were killed in the Donetsk region on Thursday.

Russia has stepped up drone and missile attacks on Ukraine more than three years into its invasion, even as the warring parties meet for ceasefire talks.

The Russian army has also been making advances on the ground. Familieswith children were ordered out of 10 settlements in Donetsk, including the town of Dobropillia, where 28,000 people lived before the war.

`I emphasise once again: staying in the Donetsk region is extremely dangerous,` said regional governor Vadim Filashkin.

Donetsk regional officials issued blurred images of one of the bloodied women killed in Kostyantynivka, where a dozen other people were wounded. Russian forces are gradually encircling the industrial hub. A strike later on Kharkiv city wounded 37 people, including a 10-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy and girl, the governor said.-AFP