Civilians killed in Ukraine by a missile attack on Kyiv and Kharkiv
Residential buildings were hit early on Tuesday in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, leaving five people killed and another 42 injured.
They included two women of 40 and 56.
The city mayor said part of a block of flats was destroyed and rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors.
The sky over Kharkiv turned burnt orange with fire after the strikes, which used multiple kinds of Russian missiles. The city is close to the border - it's difficult to intercept the missiles in the air.
Kharkiv resident Natalia told the BBC she doesn't remember things being this "loud" since the start of the war: "My house shook. It was all very loud. There were explosions, then another ten seconds - and another bang."
"Many people are without power and heating. Other than fear and hatred, at this moment I feel nothing," she said.
At least one person was killed in the industrial city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In Kyiv, the air raid went on for more than two and a half hours, the longest since 2 January. Several other people were hurt when a block of flats caught fire and another was damaged.
A spokesman said a young woman was pulled from the rubble. Initially rescuers thought she had died, but she is now in hospital in intensive care. Most of the casualties were in Kyiv's central Solomianskyi and western Sviatoshynsky districts.
In Sviatoshinsky district, several residential buildings were damaged. Hours after the attacks, emergency services were still on the scene and looking for explosives as it was suspected there may be part of a missile that did not detonate.
Three other regions of Kyiv were also damaged by falling debris after air defences intercepted the Russian missiles during the attack. The office of mayor Vitaliy Klitschko says 20 people have been injured and 13 are in hospital, including children.
Elsewhere in the city, when the attack was over, city residents emerged from their bomb shelters and homes to check the damage.
In areas lucky enough not to be hit this time, people went about their morning as usual. Shops opened up, and roads and streets were busy. staff kept working through the air raid, even though they heard the explosions and felt the doors rattle.
But at the site of the missile attack on Tuesday afternoon, emergency workers were picking through the debris where large fragments fell on a block of flats.
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