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The death toll from Russian missile strikes on the city of Kryvyi Rih in southern Ukraine has risen to at least two, with Ukrainian officials warning that more people are trapped under the rubble.
Smoke billowed from a gaping hole smashed in the side of a nine-storey building, while another, four-storey building had been almost levelled, a video posted by President Volodymyr Zelensky showed.
“Two are dead and around five-seven people are under the rubble,” Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on television. The general prosecutor’s office said 25 people had been wounded, including four children.
Zelensky, who grew up in the steel-producing city that had a pre-war population of more than 600,000, said the strikes had hit a university building and a residential building.
Two people have been killed and four injured in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city, the Russian-installed head of Ukraine’s Donetsk region has said.
In a statement posted on Telegram, Denis Pushilin said the casualties occurred when Ukrainian shells hit a civilian bus. Donetsk’s Russian-installed mayor separately published on Telegram pictures of a burnt-out bus.
The city of Donetsk has been under Russian control since 2014, but Ukrainian troops continue to hold positions on its outskirts and the city regularly comes under artillery fire.