Five people killed in Ukrainian shelling of Russian border region

Reuters news agency has said one of its journalists covering the war in Ukraine is missing and two others have been taken to hospital after a Russian missile strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Five people have been killed in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said on Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine where a news agency team were staying, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured.

Twelve other people were wounded in the Russian village of Rakitone, 23 miles (38km) from the Ukrainian border, including a 16-year-old girl reported to be in a critical condition, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.