Five children were among those injured in the attack, which also damaged apartment buildings, an educational institution and a civilian enterprise, they added in a Telegram post.

Igor Terekhov, the mayor of Ukraine’s second biggest city, said the attack damaged 15 apartment buildings based on preliminary information.

Reuters photos from the scene showed emergency workers giving first aid to people with bleeding wounds near one of the apartment buildings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Russia has reduced the number of its strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities, but was attacking civilian infrastructure instead.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to a US-brokered moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure last month, but both sides have accused each other since of violating it.

Zelensky told a press conference in Kyiv that in total, Russia was launching the same number of missiles and drones at Ukraine as before the agreement.

A drone attack on Sumy this morning, another northeastern city, also killed one person and injured another at a factory baking Easter cakes.