A 2-year-old girl was killed and 22 people were injured, including five children, when a Russian missile hit the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, the local governor said today.

“During the night, the body of a girl who had just turned 2 years old was recovered from the ruins of the house,” Serhii Lisak said on Telegram.

Seventeen people are in hospital after the Iskander short-range cruise missile attack by Russian forces, he added.

The rockets fell between two apartment buildings in the Pidorodnenska district, partially destroying them and causing material damage to several houses, cars and infrastructure, Lisak explained.

Photos posted on social media show teams of rescuers searching the ruins of a damaged building.

Mykola Lukashuk, head of the regional council of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, pointed out that 17 children have been killed there since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“There are no words to comfort the parents who lost the most precious thing in their lives,” Lukaszuk stressed.

“Once again Russia is proving that it is a terrorist state,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained this morning.

After the Dnipro attack, Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force announced today that it destroyed four of six cruise missiles and three of five Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russian forces.

For its part, the military administration of Kiev pointed out that all Russian attacks against the Ukrainian capital were intercepted.

Since the start of the war, at least 485 children have lost their lives and nearly 1,500 have been injured, the attorney general’s office announced today on Telegram.