Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine for the first time early on Thursday morning, Kyiv’s air force has said.

It said the missile hit Dnipro, in southern Ukraine, a few minutes after being fired from a site in Astrakhan, by the Caspian Sea.

A defence source later told Ukrainian media that the missile was an RS-26 Rubezh, which Kyiv believes Moscow fired in response to Ukraine firing Western-made missiles into Russia.

The missile was reportedly fired as part of a wider attack on Dnipro, which Ukraine said injured two people and sparked fires in an industrial area. A rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities was damaged and a fire broke out at a residential building, emergency services said.

“From early morning, the aggressor massively attacked the region,” Sergei Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, said in a statement.