No fewer than nine people have been killed and 29 injured in a Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s southern city of Kryvyi Rih, local officials say.
Five children are among the injured after a residential block was struck on Wednesday, according to the prosecutor general’s office in Ukraine. Four people had been reported missing earlier.
Police, volunteers, and emergency personnel are currently going through the wreckage. There are search dogs on the site.
Russia’s defence ministry has not made any statements in public regarding the alleged attack on the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky has expressed his condolences to the victims’ relatives and friends.
“Every day and every hour, Russian terror proves that Ukraine, together with its partners, must strengthen [the country’s] air defence,” he said.
The official emergency agency of Ukraine, DSNS, released a video showing an injured woman being removed from the wreckage on a stretcher.
Following the strike, firefighters are seen combating the fires caused by the strike.
