Ukraine war: Dnipro attack, Zelenskyy in Bakhmut, North Korean weapons

At least nine people were injured on Friday in a Russian strike on the town of Dnipro in east-central Ukraine, which hit an apartment block and a security services building, according to the authorities.

"At present, we know of nine people injured, including two children", said Sergiy Kruk of Ukraine's emergency services, raising the previous figure of five injured given by the Interior Minister.

Ukrainian MP Oleksandre Bakumov pointed out on Telegram that this city of 1 million inhabitants before the war had been the target of a Russian "missile attack".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky added that the Ukrainian security services building in Dnipro had also been hit by the Russian strike.

"Russian missiles have once again spread terror", he commented on Telegram, promising to ensure that Russia would be "held accountable" and "punished".

Videos posted on social networks and in the Ukrainian media show the top floors of a residential complex partly gutted and smoking, while the courtyard is littered with debris.

The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serguiï Lyssak, referred to a fire covering 100 square metres in an "administrative building".

The Russian Defence Ministry said it shot down a Ukrainian missile in the city of Taganrog, about 40 kilometres east of the border with Ukraine, and local officials reported 20 people were injured, identifying the epicentre as an art museum.

Debris fell on the city, the ministry added, alleging the missile was part of a “terror attack” by Ukraine.

Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine's secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, blamed Russian air defence systems for the explosion.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it downed a second Ukrainian missile near the city of Azov, which like