At least 21 people were killed Friday in Russian and Ukrainian long-range strikes – including at a gathering of Ukraine's defence industry just outside Kyiv and at a factory hundreds of miles east of Moscow. Both sides have been intensifying drone and missile strikes with diplomacy on ending the four-and-a-half-year war at a standstill. In the most deadly attack, a Russian missile strike outside the Ukrainian capital killed at least 10 people and wounded around 100, Ukraine's prosecutor general said. Ukrainian prosecutors opened a criminal probe into the organisation of the event – the latest Russian strike on a gathering of military and defence figures in the war. Russia later confirmed that it had struck the defence industry event.