(Reuters) – A ballistic missile hit an apartment building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding 15, four of them seriously, officials said.
Ukrainian officials denounced the Christmas Eve attack on the city, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
“The monsters directly attacked a four-story residential block with 32 apartments,” the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, wrote on Telegram.
Doctors were unable to revive a man whose body had been pulled from under the rubble, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said.
Vilkul later said a woman had been rescued and taken to a hospital after spending four hours covered in debris.
“While other countries in the world celebrate Christmas, Ukrainians continue to suffer from endless Russian attacks,” Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram.
Governor Lysak posted photos of rescuers searching through a large pile of rubble, recovering a person covered in dust and loading him into an ambulance.
Kryvyi Rih is a steel town with a pre-war population of more than 600,000.
Its southern outskirts lie about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the nearest Russian-occupied territory, and it has been regularly targeted by Russian missile attacks throughout the war.
Russia says it does not deliberately target civilians, although thousands have been killed since Moscow launched its invasion in 2022.