Russian missiles struck a multi-storey apartment building in Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Friday, leaving the building in ruins and injuring at least 25 people, officials said, but Russia denied that an attack had taken place.

Russian officials say reports of the missile strike are untrue, suggesting the explosion was caused by Ukrainian ammunition.

Rescuers have recovered the body of a 3-year-old boy from under the rubble of a five-story building destroyed by a russian missile in Kharkiv.The mayor of

Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said Russian forces were advancing into Ukrainian defences and that President Vladimir Putin ordered expansion of a buffer zone in Ukraine's Sumy and Kharkiv in 2026,

Governor says rescue teams searching for survivors after ballistic weapons 'completely destroyed' 5-story building in city center - Anadolu Ajansı

Rescuers pulled a woman's body out of the rubble of a house destroyed by russians in Kharkiv at night.Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and the State Emergency

Less than 20 miles from the Russian border is the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has faced great trauma in the course of Russia's four-year onslaught. Despite the great personal losses of many of its soldiers and citizens,

Amid intense negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, a video is circulating on Facebook in Bulgaria claiming to show residents of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv protesting with demands for the city to become part of Russia.

A search is underway in Ukraine on Friday for people possibly trapped under rubble after a Russian strike hit the country's northeast.