Four people were killed and a five-year-old girl seriously injured after Russian airstrikes hit a house in Kharkiv, it has been claimed.
Two of the children were killed after the overnight strikes, the Ukraine's State Emergency Services (SES) have said.
Rescuers are expected to continue search operations today to pull bodies from the rubble, they added.
It comes after another long night of attacks and as air raid sirens continue to sound across the country.
A 13-year-old boy and two women were killed after an airstrike in Sumy
The head of the regional administration group, Dmytro Zhyvytsky, said that Okhtyrka and the village of Bytytsya in Sumy Oblast, had been bombed on a daily and nightly basis, destroying residential neighbourhoods and infrastructure.
Meanwhile, Russia has been widely condemned after an attack on a hospital injured 17 women and destroyed both the maternity and children's units.
At this point, it is not clear whether or not it was a targeted attack.
35,000 civilians fled the cities of Sumy and Energodar as well as towns in the Kyiv region yesterday according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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