Russian missile strike hits apartment block in Pryluky, dead and hurt reported

Russian missiles struck a five-storey residential building in Pryluky, in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, early on Wednesday morning, killing and injuring people, regional governor Vyacheslav Chaus said. "One of the hits was right on a residential block of flats, in the morning when people were still asleep," he said on Telegram. The exact number of casualties in Pryluky was not immediately clear, the Kyiv Post reported.

Local police chief Vladyslav Stoyanov said a missile hit a five-storey residential building in one of the city's neighbourhoods, 24 Kanal reported. An entire stairwell entrance of the building was destroyed, 24 Kanal said. Rescuers were searching through the rubble for residents, and officials said the number of casualties could rise because people might still be trapped.

The missile strikes, which hit the city early in the morning, also damaged a centre for children's and youth creativity and a business, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Police, rescuers and medics were all working at the scene, officials said.

The attack on Pryluky came during a wider wave of Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday that the Kyiv Post said killed at least five people in total. Two people died in a fire at a garage complex in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, and two more died when a residential area of Kremenchuk, in the Poltava region, was hit, with seven injured there, officials in each city said.

A separate strike hit critical infrastructure in Oleksandriia, in the Kirovohrad region, killing a woman and injuring three people, mayor Serhiy Kuzmenko said. Contact had been lost with two other people, he said, and rescue units were working at the scene. Russian forces also struck an industrial facility in Dnipro and transport infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia during the same wave, officials said.