The aftermath of a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, 2 April 2025. Photo. Volodymyr Zelensky, Telegram

Four people died and 13 were injured in a Russian missile strike on the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon, Dnipropetrovsk region Governor Serhiy Lysak has announced.

The head of the city’s Defence Council, Oleksandr Vilkul, said that a further three people had been hospitalised due to their injuries, and that medics and first responders were on the scene. He said that Russia had attacked civilian infrastructure in the city with a ballistic missile, and that several apartment buildings had been damaged.

In an earlier Telegram post, Lysak said that Russia had struck the premises of a business in the city.

Commenting on the strike, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky extended his condolences to the victims of the attack, all of whom, he said, were civilians, and reminded the international community that only global pressure could bring Russian terror tactics to an end.

“All over the world, such attacks are called the same thing: terror,” Zelensky wrote. “The only way to stop this is to put enough pressure on Moscow, on the Russian system, so that they are forced to abandon war and terror.”