Freedom Square in central Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, has been hit by a Russian strike, causing a huge explosion.
The missile hit the regional government’s headquarters in the city near the Russian border.
Kharkiv, a city of 1.4m, is known as Ukraine’s tech capital and residential areas have been hit too.
Elsewhere, a huge convoy of Russian armoured vehicles is advancing on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
We’re beginning to hear more about the civilian death toll across Ukraine says BBC as monitored by Kekz World News.
Earlier, emergency officials said that about 20 people had been injured in the strike on Kharkiv’s administrative building and that six people had been recovered – we are unclear as to whether they were dead or alive.
Now the India’s foreign minister has said an Indian student was killed in the strike on Kharkiv on Tuesday morning.
Dozens of civilian deaths were reported after Russia’s bombardment of the city on Monday.
President Zelensky of Ukraine calls the attacks on Kharkiv “state terrorism”
Ukraine’s President said the attack on the city is a war crime, saying there were eyewitness accounts of civilians being deliberately targeted.
On Monday the UN said there had been more than 400 civilian casualties during the war, including at least 102 dead.
In the north-eastern city of Okhtyrka, up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a Russian artillery strike.
Source: BBC News