KYIV, Ukraine, April 1, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Russian fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine overnight and during the day on Wednesday, killing at least five people and destroying a postal terminal, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukraine's Nova Poshta mailing company published an image showing a warehouse in the western city of Lutsk in flames, thick smoke pouring from its roof.

The attacks came a day after the Kremlin rejected a Ukrainian proposal for a temporary ceasefire over the Easter holiday.

"We proposed a ceasefire for Easter -- in response, we're getting 'shaheds'," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Facebook, referring to the Iranian-designed drones that Russia uses on Ukraine daily.

In addition to firing 339 drones at Ukraine overnight, Russia launched over 360 drones during the day, the Ukrainian air force said.

A Russian drone killed four people in the central Cherkasy region, while an earlier drone strike on a car in Ukraine's frontline Kherson region killed a woman and badly wounded two other people, regional authorities said.

Russia meanwhile stepped up pressure on the front line, claiming on Wednesday to have taken two villages in eastern Ukraine and fully captured the Lugansk region, which its forces had already largely occupied.

Zelensky described the situation on the front as "quite tense" in a separate social media post.

The Ukrainian leader is expected to hold a video call later Wednesday with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on resuming negotiations with Russia, now frozen due to the war in Iran.