Russian missile strikes hit eastern Ukraine, killing five and injuring 31

Missile strikes in Pokrovsk, Ukraine killed five people and injured 31 including 19 policemen and a child (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Two Russian missile strikes hit the city centre of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 31, Ukrainian officials have said.

Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said one of the strikes, which targeted the Ukrainian portion of a region partially occupied by Russia, killed four civilians, and the other killed the deputy head of the regional branch of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.