Russian missiles strike an apartment building, killing at least 4 in Ukrainian leader's hometown

Russian missiles slammed into an apartment complex and a university building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, while a Ukrainian artillery strike on partially occupied Donetsk province killed two people

Russian missiles slammed into an apartment complex and a university building in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing four people and wounding dozens of others on July 31 as the blasts trapped residents beneath rubble, Ukraine's Interior Minister said.

One of the two missiles destroyed a section of the apartment building between the fourth and ninth floors, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Video showed black smoke billowing from corner units and burned out or damaged cars on a tree-lined street.

A 10-year-old child was among those killed, Klymenko said. Serhii Kruk, head of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, said 44 people were wounded in the morning attack, which also destroyed part of the four-storey university building.

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Meanwhile, a Ukrainian artillery strike on partially occupied Donetsk province killed two people and wounded six in the regional capital, according to Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed leader of the illegally annexed province.

A bus was also hit as Ukrainian forces shelled the city of Donetsk multiple times Monday, Pushilin said.

Neither side's claims could be independently verified.