Russia hits cities across Ukraine with missile barrage

Russia has hit cities across Ukraine with a sustained missile barrage, causing a nine-storey residential building in the central city of Dnipro to partially collapse.

The number of civilians killed and wounded in the strike on the industrial city of more than 1mn people was not immediately clear. As rescuers sought survivors in the building’s rubble the region’s governor Valentyn Reznichenko said five people had been confirmed killed and 39 injured, including six children.