New Delhi: An explosion on Saturday hit a two-storey dwelling in Ukraine's central city of Dnipro, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring 22 people including five children, Reuters reported citing the regional governor.
"Overnight, the body of a girl who had just turned two was pulled from under the rubble of a house," Serhiy Lysak wrote on the Telegram messaging channel.
Serhiy Lysak, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said a total of 17 people were being treated in hospital after the attack on a residential area by Iskander short-range cruise missiles.
According to reports on social media, a Russian missile caused the explosion and an emergency services building was also hit, reported Reuters.
There was no confirmation of a missile strike from Ukrainian military officials. Moscow too denies its military forces target civilians.
The war has killed at least 485 children in Ukraine and injured nearly 1,500, the country's Office of the Prosecutor General said on Sunday on Telegram.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, also writing on Telegram, said the explosion occurred between two dwellings.
"Unfortunately, there are people under the rubble," Zelenskiy wrote. "Once again, Russia proves it is a terrorist state."
Pictures posted on social media showed rescue teams working at a shattered, smouldering building amid piles of twisted building materials.
Following the attack in Dnipro, Russia launched a new wave of overnight air strikes on the country. Ukraine's air force said on Sunday it destroyed more than half of the air targets.
Four of the six cruise missiles and three of the five Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia were downed, the air force said on Telegram.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, a nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother, and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said.
Zelenskiy expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted.
Zelenskiy, in his nightly video message, said shelters "must be kept accessible. Never again should we see a repeat of the situation that occurred last night in Kyiv..."
This was "very clearly" the duty of local authorities "and if this duty is not fulfilled at the local level, it is the direct duty of law enforcement bodies to prosecute".