'Russia terror' missile strike kills boy, 10, in Kharkiv

A 10-year-old boy has been killed and more than 20 people wounded after a Russian missile attack on a block of flats in the centre of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials have said.

- Luke Harding

The strike on the city's densely populated downtown area took place at 6.46am yesterday. Rescuers found.

the boy's body under debris. Two Iskander missiles hit a block of flats, in what Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, called another act of "Russian terror".

The latest destruction came less than a day after a lethal strike on the small village of Hroza in Kharkiv oblast killed 52 people. It was the worst single death toll in the northeastern region and one of the highest in Ukraine since the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion last year.

The White House condemned Thursday's attack on a cafe and grocery store as "horrifying", while the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, said it "demonstrated the depths of depravity Russian forces are willing to sink to", according to a Downing Street spokesperson.