(Reuters) -A ballistic missile struck an house constructing within the central Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing one individual and injuring 15, 4 of them severely, officers mentioned.

Ukrainian officers denounced the Christmas Eve assault on town, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown.

“The monsters landed a direct hit on a four-storey residential block with 32 apartments,” the pinnacle of town’s army administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, wrote on Telegram.

One man whose physique had been pulled from beneath the rubble couldn’t be revived by medics, regional governor Serhiy Lysak mentioned.

Vilkul later mentioned {that a} girl had been rescued and brought to a hospital after spending 4 hours lined in rubble.

“While other countries of the world are celebrating Christmas, Ukrainians are continuing to suffer from endless Russian attacks,” Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on Telegram.

Governor Lysak posted images of rescuers trawling by means of a big pile of rubble, recovering an individual lined in mud and loading them into an ambulance.

Kryvyi Rih is a steelmaking metropolis with a pre-war inhabitants of greater than 600,000.

Its southern outskirts lie about 40 miles (65 km) from the closest Russian-occupied territory, and it has repeatedly been the goal of Russian missile assaults all through the battle.

Russia says it doesn’t intentionally goal civilians, though hundreds have been killed since Moscow launched its invasion in 2022.