Children among eight dead in Russia strike on Ukraine

Two Russian strikes successful Ukraine's cardinal Dnipropetrovsk portion person killed 8 people, including 2 children, officials say.

The presumption successful the main metropolis Dnipro came nether attack, and respective homes were deed further eastbound successful Synelnykove.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the onslaught highlighted the request for each metropolis to person capable aerial defences.

In a abstracted strike, Ukraine said that for the archetypal clip it had downed a long-range bomber successful Russian territory.

According to Ukraine's interior ministry, 2 children aged six and 8 were among six radical killed erstwhile backstage homes were targeted by Russian strikes connected the municipality of Synelnykove.

In the determination superior Dnipro different 2 radical were killed and 16 were wounded erstwhile a five-storey gathering was hit. The ministry added that rescue services were continuing to hunt the rubble and warned that the fig of victims would rise.

Ukraine has for months warned that it is moving debased connected weapons susceptible of bringing down Russian missiles and drones, and Nato's caput general, Jens Stoltenberg, has spoken of an "urgent, captious need" for caller subject aid.

However, the aerial unit successful Kyiv declared that it had brought down a Russian Tu-22M3 strategical bomber that was being utilized to occurrence supersonic Kh-22 cruise missiles astatine Ukrainian cities from the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Unverified video showed a level connected occurrence spiralling retired of power to the ground.

Stavropol determination politician Vladimir Vladimirov said lone that the level had crashed successful a tract immoderate region northbound of the main metropolis and 2 pilots had been recovered alive. A 3rd unit subordinate was killed and rescue services were looking for a fourth.

Ukrainian aerial unit main Lt Gen Mykola Oleschuk said six Kh-22 cruise missiles had been fired overnight and 2 of them had been destroyed for the archetypal time.