A view of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Reuters

The toll from overnight Russian strikes on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig has risen to 10, authorities said Tuesday.

Gov. Serhiy Lysak of the Dnipropetrovsk region said the strike involving cruise missiles hit a five-story residential building early on Tuesday and the area was engulfed in fire. He said in a Telegram post that people were trapped under the rubble and rescue operations were ongoing.

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The devastation in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its 16th month, as Ukrainian forces are mounting counteroffensive operations using Western-supplied firepower to try to drive out the Russians.

Images from the scene relayed by Zelensky on his Telegram channel showed firefighters battling the blaze as pockets of fire poked through multiple broken windows of a building. Charred and damaged vehicles littered the nearby ground.

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Reuters

"More terrorist missiles,” he wrote on the social app. "Russian killers continue their war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people.”

The aerial assault was the latest barrage of strikes by Russian forces that targeted various parts of Ukraine overnight.

The Kyiv military administration reported that the capital come under fire as well on Tuesday, but the incoming missiles were destroyed by air defenses and there were no immediate reports of any casualties there.

Associated Press