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At least two people died at the Moldovan border amid escalating drone strikes in the Russia-Ukraine war, with five deaths reported in Ukraine and four in Russia from a new round of drone attacks by both sides. Ukrainian drones struck a Russian port on the Caspian Sea in Dagestan, while Russian forces continued strikes deep into Ukrainian territory. A Russian strike hit a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad, killing at least four people, according to local officials. The attack adds to the mounting civilian toll from the intensifying drone and missile exchanges along the front and in cities far from the front line.