Russian missile strike on Ukrainian city claims 14

A Russian ballistic missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's home city of Kryvyi Rih killed 14 people on Friday, including six children, the Ukrainian leader said.

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The missile struck a residential area near a children's polyclinic and wounded more than 30 people, according to the head of the city's military administration.

The head of Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhii Lysak, described the Russian ballistic attack as "war crime" on television.

The strike comes as US and European officials press Russia to accept a ceasefire in the conflict. Emergency crews carried black body bags from a burning apartment building as onlookers wept in the jagged winter darkness.

Some of the wounded, bloodied and in shock, limped out into the street or were carried on stretchers as flames shot from the windows of their homes.

"Now I think it is obvious who wants peace and who wants war," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said to a Nato meeting in Brussels, referring to the Kharkiv strike. "We must get Russia serious about peace. We must pressure Russia into peace."