Russian missile kills three women at Ukrainian 'invincibility point' - officials

Rescuers work at a site of a building of an invincibility centre heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine March 24, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

A Russian missile slammed into an "invincibility point" set up to offer refuge for Ukrainian civilians, killing at least three women, local officials said on Friday.

Four other civilians were also killed during the night, local officials said. The dead included two people killed in heavy Russian shelling of the Sumy region on northern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office said.