Missile attack hits Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, leaving dead and wounded.
"Two buildings were hit, one five stories high and one nine stories high," reported the government of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
(Reuters) Russian missiles struck two buildings in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 38, and rescue teams searched the rubble late into the night for survivors.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, reported that the provisional count of injured was 28 adults and 10 children. He later stated that rescue operations had been completed.
"Two buildings were hit, one five stories high, one nine stories high," Lysak wrote on Telegram.
"The number of injured people is constantly growing, as is the number of injured children."
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih, said that at least three missile impacts were recorded in the city.
He said that at least five adults and one of the children already taken to the hospital were in critical condition. Nine people were rescued in operations conducted apartment by apartment, and all fires at the site were brought under control.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was born and raised in the city, praised the rescue teams on Telegram and vowed that Russia would be held accountable.
"Every day, our cities and villages suffer similar attacks. Every day, Ukraine loses people to Russian evil," he wrote.
"There can be no pause, not for a day, a week, much less a month, in supporting the simple defense of lives, to save people from terror."
(Reporting by Ron Popeski)