Putin rains missile terror on Ukraine: Russian strikes on SBU security service building and residential complex wound at least nine people including two children

A Russian missile struck an apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, Kyiv officials said, injuring at least nine people including two children.

Pictures posted on social media showed part of one building reduced to rubble and debris strewn across a large courtyard. 

Regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messaging app the injured were receiving treatment at home. 

Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said it was the third time the SBU security service building had been targeted. Both buildings were largely empty – the residential building because it had just been completed and units were being put up for sale. 

Internal Affairs Minister Igor Klymenko earlier reported ‘a Russian strike on a multistorey building in Dnipro’, saying five people had been injured.

Ukrainian firefighters work to put out a fire in an administrative building after missiles strike in Dnipro

One Russian missile struck an apartment block (pictured), Kyiv officials said, injuring at least nine people including two children

Ukrainian policemen block a road as an emergency service truck drives past near the site of the rocket blasts

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Both buildings were largely empty – the residential building because it had just been completed and units were being put up for sale. Pictured: Locals watch the site where the missiles struck in Dnipro

Videos posted on social media showed smoke billowing from the top floors of a residential building that had been badly damaged.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said: ‘Dnipro. Friday evening. A high-rise building and the Security Service of Ukraine’s building were hit. Russian missile terror again’.

‘All necessary services are on site… We keep the situation under control. We will do everything to bring Russia to full punishment for aggression and terror against our people.’

Russia said on Friday it intercepted two Ukrainian missiles over its southern Rostov region, bordering Ukraine. It said at least a dozen people were wounded by debris falling on the city of Taganrog.

Russian regions bordering Ukraine have seen regular drone strikes and shelling since Moscow launched its military campaign in February last year but have hardly ever been targeted by missiles.

Russia, whose forces invaded neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022, says it does not target civilian sites.

Its forces have intensified evening and night-time missile attacks on a variety of targets – focusing in particular on port facilities around the city of Odesa after Moscow pulled out of an agreement allowing grain shipments from Ukraine’s ports.

Pictured: Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of the damaged administrative building

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attacks as ‘Russian terror’ as Moscow claimed to have intercepted two Ukrainian missiles on the same day