MOSCOW, Aug 15, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Ukrainian drone strike on an apartment block killed one person and wounded 10 others in southwestern Russia, the region's acting governor said early Friday.

Governor Alexander Khinshtein said he went to the apartment building damaged in the strike in Kursk.

"Unfortunately, a 45-year-old woman died on the spot," he said on Telegram, adding that the number of wounded had risen to 10, including a teenager.

The attack came as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump are to meet on Friday in Alaska for a summit that the Kremlin said would focus on "the resolution of the Ukraine crisis".

Russia has made gains on the ground ahead of the summit, with its forces claiming on Thursday to have captured the village of Iskra and the small town of Shcherbynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

The latest drone attack came after Russia and Ukraine exchanged 84 prisoners each, both sides said, the latest in a series of swaps that has seen hundreds of POWs released so far this year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not invited to the Alaska summit, which he has denounced as a reward to Putin, and has refused Trump's calls to surrender territory.