Nine people were killed and 29 injured, including five children, after a Russian ballistic missile struck Ukraine’s southern city of Kryvyi Rih.

It was the deadliest attack to strike Ukraine in weeks, destroying an administrative building and an apartment block on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Commenting on the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky said: “Every day and every hour, Russian terror proves that Ukraine, together with its partners, should strengthen air defences.”

Kryvyi Rih is his hometown.

One man could be seen being carried out of the rubble on a stretcher in a video shared by Mr Zelensky. 

Firefighters battled blazes and rescuers heaved a block of concrete in the ruins. Mr Klymenko said recovery work was now complete.

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