Russia fires two S-300 missiles in latest strike on Kharkiv
Russia has fired two missiles at Kharkiv city in north-eastern Ukraine, hitting apartment buildings and a medical centre and injuring 17 people, officials said.
The S-300 missiles landed after dark on Tuesday, Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram.
The surface-to-air missiles have been adapted by Russia to hit land targets and are cheaper to produce than ballistic or cruise missiles. However, they are inaccurate and have a shorter range, analysts say.
Both sides are looking to replenish their weapons stockpiles as fighting along the 930-mile front line is largely bogged down by winter weather and the war's focus turns to long-range missile, drone and artillery strikes.
Russia'sintenseaerialattacks across Ukraine in recent weeks sharply increased civilian casualties in December, with more than 100 killed and nearly 500 injured.
Ukraine president Volodymyr
Zelensky has been making a diplomatic push for Kyiv's Western allies to keep supplying weaponry.
He recently visited three Baltic countries and was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to make his case on Tuesday.
The night-time attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine's secondlargest city, struck 20 residential buildings and a medical centre, authorities said.
Deeper inside the region of the same name, areas close to the front line came under artillery fire, according to officials.
Ukraine's air force said it intercepted 19 out of 20 Shahed-type drones fired by Russia overnight, though regional officials reported that other drones made it through air defences.
In the southern city of Odesa, three people were injured in a drone attack that forced the evacuation of about 130 people from an apartment building, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.
In Kherson, another southern city, artillery fire injured three people and damaged residential districts overnight.
The missile attacks on
Kharkiv came from the Russian border region of Belgorod, Ukrainian officials said.
That area has experienced a recent increase of cross-border attacks by Ukraine.
The Russian defence ministry said yesterday that two winged Ukrainian drones and four missiles were shot down over the Belgorod region overnight and another around noon local time on Wednesday.
It provided no details about damage or injuries.
Meanwhile, Lord Cameron has played down any urgent need for Mr Zelensky to hold an election in the country later this year.
The Foreign Secretary, who appeared alongside Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, also insisted that the best way to ensure peace was to continue supporting Ukraine.
The former prime minister downplayed the need for a presidential election this year, something hard-right Republicans in the US have pressed for amid wrangles in Congress over military funding for Ukraine.
Lord Cameron downplayed the need for a presidential election this year in Ukraine