At least 18 people including two children have been killed and dozens more wounded in the latest Russian missile strike on a civilian building in Ukraine.
Kyiv says a AS-4 anti-ship missile – the same kind used against a shopping mall in Kremenchuk earlier this week – hit a nine-storey apartment block in Odesa overnight, all-but destroying the building.
Thirty one people were hurt in the strike, local officials said, including a pregnant woman and four infants. Video shows rescuers searching the rubble for survivors, and a distressed woman calling for help as a child cries in the background.
It is just the latest Russian airstrike to hit a civilian target in Ukraine, after the Kremenchuk shopping centre was struck on Monday – killing at least 20 – and an apartment block in Mykolaiv was hit Wednesday – killing at least eight.
