Two Russian attacks in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region have killed eight people, including two children, officials say.
The station in the capital Dnipro was attacked and further east, in Synelnykove, several houses were hit.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack highlighted the need for every city to have adequate air defense.
In a separate attack, Ukraine said it had downed a long-range bomber on Russian territory for the first time.
Two children aged six and eight were among six people killed when private homes were targeted by Russian attacks on the town of Synelnykove, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In the regional capital Dnipro, another two people were killed and 16 were injured when a five-storey building was hit. The ministry added that rescue services continued to search the rubble and warned that the number of victims would rise.
Ukraine has been warning for months that the country is running out of weapons that can shoot down Russian missiles and drones, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has spoken of an “urgent, critical need” for new military aid.
However, the air force in Kiev stated that it had downed a Russian strategic bomber Tu-22M3 that was used to fire supersonic Kh-22 cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities from the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Unverified video footage showed a burning plane going out of control and plummeting to the ground.
Stavropol regional governor Vladimir Vladimirov said only that the plane had crashed in a Russian field some distance north of the capital and that two pilots had been found alive. A third crew member was killed and rescue services were searching for a fourth.
Ukrainian air chief Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleschuk said Russia had fired six Kh-22 cruise missiles in one night and two of them had been destroyed for the first time.
