Seven killed in overnight Russian attack on Ukraine

Seven people have been killed in Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Officials said on Saturday that Russian missile strikes killed five people including a child in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last night, while a teenager and another person died in attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region.

Authorities said the strikes on Dnipro late Friday damaged multiple buildings including a hospital.

They also said more than a dozen other people were wounded in the city, including children.

Images show rescuers working over a pile of rubble, while another showed what appeared to be a hospital room with its windows blown out.

The strikes came less than 48 hours after Russia finished hosting a three-day summit of the BRICS group of emerging economies in the city of Kazan.

At the summit, President Vladimir Putin faced calls from world leaders to end the conflict.

“After everything that was said in Kazan, the Russians returned to their usual business,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

“This proves once again that aggression cannot be stopped by talking, but only by decisive actions in defence of the state.”

Lloyd Austin, United States secretary of defence, says North Korea has deployed troops to Russia.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin and North Korea have forged increasingly friendly ties.