Russia kills 10 in Ukraine strike including children with new missile

President Zelenskyy calls for international response as Russian assault targets civilian and energy infrastructure.

A Russian missile strike killed at least 10 people, including two children, after hitting a residential apartment block in Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv.

The attack brought down an entire entrance section of the five-storey building from the first floor to the fifth, trapping residents under the rubble, the Kyiv Post reported.

Among the dead were a primary school teacher and her son, a second-grade student, as well as a 13-year-old girl and her mother, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Sixteen others were wounded on Friday.

Emergency crews were still combing through debris on Saturday, with authorities warning survivors may still be trapped.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said preliminary findings indicate Russia deployed the Izdeliye-30 cruise missile in the strike and has opened a war crimes investigation.