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video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed smoke
billowing from a gaping hole smashed in the side of a
nine-storey residential building, and another four-storey
building almost levelled.
"Tragic news. Four people have already died in Kryvyi Rih,"
Serhiy Lysak, the regional governor, wrote on the Telegram
messenger app. Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said they included a
10-year-old girl and her 45-year-old mother.
Zelenskiy, who grew up in the steel-producing city with a
pre-war population of more than 600,000, said the strikes had
hit a residential building and a university building.
"This terror will not frighten us or break us. We are working
and saving our people," he said on the Telegram app.
More than 200 rescuers were trying to save people trapped under
the rubble. Vilkul said there could be as many as eight.
Emergency services said at least 43 people had been wounded. Air
Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said the attack appeared to have
been carried out with ballistic missiles.
Kherson, now a frontline city in southern Ukraine after being
liberated from Russian forces in November, was struck at least
twice.
An early morning rocket attack killed a 60-year-old utility
worker and wounded four others as they were out on the street
doing their jobs, the regional military administration said.
A 65-year-old man driving his car was badly wounded in the
second strike and died as an acquaintance tried to rush him to
hospital, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Anna Pruchnicka; writing by Tom
Balmforth; editing by Andrew Cawthorne, Alex Richardson,
Philippa Fletcher and Kevin Liffey)
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