Russia’s defence ministry has said that the strike on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's home town, Kryvyi Rih was targeted at a military gathering.
However, the Ukrainian military has denounced this claim as “false information”;.
“The missile struck a residential area with a playground,”; the military’s general staff said on Telegram.
The city’s military administrator said that Russian drones had later attacked private homes there, triggering fires at four sites.
Oleksandr Vilkul said an elderly woman had died in her home and five others were injured.
At least eighteen people were confirmed dead after a Russian missile strike hit President Zelenskyy's home in the Ukraine's central city of Kryvyi Rih.
These include nine children as the missile struck the residential area on Friday, according to local officials.
It was one of Russia’s deadliest attacks in 2025 in the three-year-old war.
